Trips coming up?

Posted by: mudwolf on 13 May 2013

After spending 8 years as caregiver to my folks I'm finally free to travel.  3 days I fly to Newark NJ and drive north to West Point Military Academy for my dad's 70th reunion, class of 43 and on the beach in D-day.  Not too many oldsters now, but there will be family there so taking pics, tours of campus and formal dinners in wonderful halls. My first memories of dad teaching there, gray uniformed cadets, marching bands and dad coming home in his uniform, a bit intimidating.

 

Hudson River Valley is quite famous and I"m driving around with a friend for a few days before we head back, FDR and Vanderbuilt estates plus numerous mill towns along the river, Storm King sculpture park I've known about for 30 years and DIA is there.

http://www.usma.edu/SitePages/Home.aspx

 

any other big trips happening?

Posted on: 20 May 2013 by Paper Plane

I'll be driving my wife, daughter and newly arrived granddaughter to Fife to see the rellies, after the little lady decides to arrive...

 

steve

Posted on: 20 May 2013 by Onthlam
Originally Posted by Cbr600:
Originally Posted by Onthlam:
Leave for Indi 500 on Friday......
Marc

Lucky sod!!

Looking forward to some good photos posted on return !

I should take a camera....Was not thinking I would...I guess I will...

Will try my best...No Ansel Adams...

Marc

Posted on: 20 May 2013 by Hook

Spent the last three weeks visiting my in-laws in South Africa.  Sunny and 75 F (24 C) each and every day, beautiful scenery, wonderful food and, best of all, a very loving family.  The USD is 9 ZAR right now, so SA makes for a very affordable holiday. And perhaps someday it will be my second home.  

 

I have my sights set on an SA retirement visa and "snow birding" (6-8 months here in Minneapolis, 4-6 months in SA).  Not sure I could ever be a true ex-pat. Will depend on the cost of health insurance, and the ability to do emergency medical evac back to the US where we can be covered by Medicare. It sucks that Medicare does not cover overseas healthcare, where costs are often only a fraction of US costs.  But I guess that makes too much sense!  I can understand that US healthcare providers don't want to loose their "golden goose" (i.e., the federal government guaranteeing payment for healthcare provided to people over 65). Still, it just seems unfair. IMO, anyone who has paid into the system for 50 years should be able to get coverage wherever they happen to reside.

 

Living in SA will also depend on what the ANC does in the next few years. Am very concerned about the national security bill they are now attempting to pass. It would kill an SA newspaper's ability to expose corruption by publishing anything the government deems confidential. Hopefully their judicial branch has remained independent, and their supreme court will declare this bill unconstitutional. Would hate to see SA become just another African dictatorship, and this bill would be a strong step in exactly that direction.

 

Anyway, don't be surprised if I start a 2nd system thread in a few years.  Who knows, maybe the Ovator 200s will be ready by then!  ;-)

 

ATB.

 

Hook