Monthly Archives: May 2011

We arrived in Iowa City and joined Vicky Brown and Eleanor Newton (who flew in yesterday) who were waiting for us at Maile Sagen’s house. When Jan became active in the ombudsman world some years ago she developed a group … Continue reading →

  During our drive from Nashville to St. Louis last week we had crossed the Tennessee and Ohio rivers, they were both high but not threatening to flood.  On the way from St. Louis to Iowa City we crossed the … Continue reading →

Wednesday morning Jan and I headed off to the St. Louis Zoo.  Many of our friends over the years have told us we were nuts,  but we’ve always visited zoos wherever we’ve traveled, even before we had kids.  We also … Continue reading →

The next morning (but not too early!) George drove us all downtown to the new Citygarden, a landscaped and sculpture-filled mall aligned with the Arch at the edge of the Mississippi.             I had visited … Continue reading →

We found our way to St. Louis, and our trusty Android phone’s GPS guided us to George & Barb Johnson’s home on Amherst Ave.  George and I were friends and roommates as graduate students at Stanford, and yes, our common … Continue reading →

At the end of our visit to the Biltmore Estate we’re back on the road to Nashville.   Lots of music, on street corners, in the parks and coming out of every bar and restaurant.  Biscuits & gravy with grits … Continue reading →

Thursday morning, May 12 We leave Pinnacle and are back on the road to Asheville, NC, to get reacquainted with another old friend, Betsy Clark, whom I knew from the summer I spent in Woods Hole after graduating from Columbia … Continue reading →

Tuesday, May 10 Two days later we’re back on the road (in the WRONG direction…sorry George!) to spend a couple of days with Sally and Phil in Pinnacle, friends from our earliest days in Irvine.  George had visited them here … Continue reading →

Sunday, May 8 (still a few days behind on our blog…) Boone , NC was our next stop.  An idyllic setting on a green hill was where we found George’s “cousins” Ingrid and Jeff, and their canine companions Mel and … Continue reading →

Friday, May 6 Our next destination is Winston-Salem, NC, the trip gave us our first (only?) FIVE STATE day.  We left PA and crossed MD, WV and VA before entering North Carolina.  Arrived in time to join George’s UCI colleague … Continue reading →