Well, long time no write. Not for lack of things to write, just too lazy to put 'em down.
Took my trip I have dreamed about for years. UK and Ireland. My son went with me to "baby sit" me. Probably a good thing or I would have worn myself out the first full day I was there. We started in London and I believe I could spend a month and still not see all I want to see. I did get to Westminster Abbey and Poet's Corner. Also saw the tombs of a lot of English monarchs including Elizabeth I and Edward I (Long Shanks, the hammer of Scotland). Hard to believe I was walking in the steps of English kings from Harold II (Harold Godwinson, not recognized since William the Bastard slew him at Hastings) to William the Bastard (the Conqueror) to Queen Elizabeth II. I felt the same way at the Tower of London. I saw the execution sites of Anne Bolyn and Catherine Howard (Henry VIII's wives), Henry's armor, the Chapel where the bodies of the executed were born, and Traitor's Gate where Elizabeth I was brought into the Tower when she was arrested by her half-sister Bloody Mary.

You might be able to detect my love of British history. I also love seeing the places I have read about, seen on television, in the movies, or in magazines. Stonehenge, Bath, Cardiff, the Ring of Kerry, and soooo much more. I feel like I just completed a survey course in the sights and sounds of Ireland and the UK, now I want to explore some places in depth. I doubt I will have the chance to go back, but boy I wish I could. I would love to have the leisure to walk around some of the cities and villages. I would love to spend a couple of days in Grassmere, England where Wordsworth lived, died, and is buried. It is a most beautiful village, peaceful and calming.

More later.