♣ May 8th, 2008, Bray, Ireland.

We spent the day In Dublin, Touring the Jameson Factory and now have a full grasp of whisky tastes and processes. I still hate the taste of the Whiskey but on the tour I got a real feel for the flavors. After the tour Ian and I met up with my friend Xango’s brother, Oihan in Dublin. We got a pint at the famous Temple Bar.

We also then grabbed a bite to eat, we all spent a good couple hours relaxing and talking. After the great meal and company Ian and I said our good byes and headed to St. Stephan’s Greens on the South side of the city where we slept for a while. While napping we were briefly awoken by a rather loudly spoken Italian guy. Loud and rambuncious, the type of person i get along with. We later bused our way to the far south of town and ended up in a small town called Bray. It was here on the south side of the city we bedded for the night. On top of some cliffs just over the sea, a picturesque view and sleeping spot.

♣ May 7th, 2008, Dublin, Ireland

Within the first twenty four hours i have been all over Dublin. I have visited a good portion of the sites and have even visited the Guinness Factory. To start of with the flights were long. The shortest leg of the trip was from Denver to JFK in New York… Jet Blue was a wonderful carrier and i have nothing but great things to say about the airlines but with a 4 hour layover in JFK anyone would start to be restless. When we finally did catch the flight to Ireland we were in for a long flight that was rather uncomfortable.

We flew on Air Lingus and the plane was an older one in the fleet so it wasn’t too accommodating. After that rather unlucky flight we found ourselves in a long line waiting through customs. After about and hour of waiting we finally made our way out of Airport. In Ireland at last. We caught the local Air Link Bus Downtown and we started wondering. We made a good dent in the city. We had a gorgeous day and nothing but excitement and adrenaline pumping through our veins. We walked to almost every site in town and a few different stores where we ran into a character or two.

After that we made our way to the Guinness factory where we were bought two extra drinks by some bougie Corperate types from New York. We also made some contacts from two Brasilians who offered to show us around Paris when we get there. After the three pints hit us we made our way to the Dock Yard and found two nice benches to make our Nights resting spot. Free beach front views for our first night in Ireland…

♣15:00, April 10th 2008, Fort Collins, Colorado

Today, the snow covered day it has become, was originally suppose to be my last day of work. And like originally planned and I was suppose to be leiasurely departing come mid to late, next week. Plans have changed and with those changes I will have to wait another two weeks to Jet, ’til Ian, my co-traveler/co-transient and not in the bad way, ’til he can get off work. The latest estimated departure date has now been disappointingly pushed back until the last week in April/ the first week in May. Either way I am itching and have been itching since January to get out of Dodge so to speak.