Journeying On

  Ice Cream for all of us, except Sheila. Helen, me, Rob, Katie, Elisabeth     Sunday, September 15, we spent the afternoon playing board games. Sheila, Helen and Elisabeth and I also went back to the mall with the bicycle tire that had been fixed on Friday, but was flat when we brought it home. A different technician fixed it this time and discovered that the original patch had been placed several inches from the hole in the tube.      Sunday evening the three girls, Rob and I  walked to the sea front for ice cream - a regular occurrence when we are here. After the ice cream Rob, Katie and Elisabeth returned to the house and Helen and I walked all the way to the Fishing Harbor. The evening air was relatively cool. Helen and me with the moon and sea, and lights of the fishing harbor behind us.     As we walked along the promenade we heard a parade coming down the street and discovered dancers representing various countries. We were both surpr...

Here we are ready to begin the next 6 week journey! On an Amtrak connector bus in Colfax.     Sunday morning, September 8, we began an auto, bus, train, auto, plane traverse to Birmingham, England where we would spend two nights with grandson Lukas before heading to Larnca, Cyprus. Youngest daughter Ruth and her fiancé Jody had volunteered to take us to the San Francisco airport, but a few days ahead of our scheduled departure they both tested positive for COVID. We had not seen them since early in August, and we certainly didn't want to expose ourselves to COVID on our way to the airport, so we had to come up with a plan B. A next door neighbor to our Colfax area home graciously took us by car to the Amtrak station in Colfax where we would catch an Amtrak Connector Bus which would take us to the Capitol Corridor Train in Sacramento We disembarked the train in Richmond where grandson Jacob picked us up, and after sharing lunch together he took us on to the airport in San Franc...