Jeff and Sharon's Travel Blog

We woke up fairly early this morning because Jeff needed to go back to the rental car place to trade…

For Fall Break, Jeff and I decided to go to the desert for some cooler weather. After the 90s we’ve…

Nineteen years ago I first visited Nevada on a work trip. It was mostly at Lake Tahoe, but driving back we stopped at Reno to view the casinos. It was there and throughout the trip that I got a sense of dirtiness as if something wasn’t quite right in the town. Maybe it was the casinos with their blacked out windows keeping patrons from seeing the position of the sun and how long they’ve been there. Maybe it was the patrons’ greed in striking it rich. Maybe it was the fact that the gamblers were rich themselves and decided to throw their money away. More still it could be those who were dirt poor due to their gambling problem.

Regardless of wh

Over Labor Day weekend Sharon and I visited her aunt, uncle, grandmother and cousin who live in Foley, Alabama. Foley…

On Sunday, we went with Bill and Teresa for breakfast at Tacky Jack’s, where I think they use five eggs…

Today was going to be a long day. A few buses and a long drive. Breakfast at our B&B was scheduled to start at 8AM, but our bus was leaving Doolin at 8AM. Therefore we had asked our host if we could have a very light snack such as cereal before we left. She obliged and left the door to the breakfast room cracked so that we could serve ourselves.

Since I saw that there wasn’t any cereal that I liked I brought along my Lucky Charms from home. They don’t sell Lucky Charms in Ireland. I got a humorous photo of me eating Lucky Charms with the Cliffs of Moher in the background, which seemed to get a lot of “Likes” on Facebook. After all isn’t life all about who has the most “Likes” on social media? Tell that to those teenagers doing impromptu photo shoots with those silly poses at the Cliffs of Moher yesterday.

After breakfast at around 7AM we decided to check out. Reluctantly we rang the buzzer summoning our host requesting to check out. Seems our room had already been paid