Devall Travels

Claire and I first went to the US together in March 2004 for her 50th birthday and stayed only for a week.  We packed a few trips in. We stayed with her cousin George in Speonk, Long Island.  The pictures in the album are out of order for some reason as they were taken (mostly) on a Nikon Coolpix camera that I bought after we had arrived. Doh.  We had booked a rental car and had a Toyota Camry for a few days and then George lent us his Crown Vic for the rest of the trip. It was blue and with the small 4.7L engine. The Manhattan pix were taken on a bus trip we did from Long Island with another of Claire's cousins, this one from Ireland but domiciled in the US. It was freezing and the view from the top of the Empire State Building was too cloudy to see much!  Perhaps we need to go back another time for a better look? UPDATE: Sadly, this was before Blogger or at least before I knew about Blogger and all my posts went on my Geocities website. Then ...

My first trip to the US was in December 1991. The trip was just as I had been made redundent and I took the opportunity to to go Miami and see out my job at Burger King HQ. I was lucky enough to stay with a work colleague in her condo near Coral Gables.  I was lucky when she was at work to use her car, and for a week, her neighbour's Kawasaki. Trips included the Keys and up to Sarasota and Sanibel. KZ750 on way to the Keys I have only a few photos of the trip and have managed to scan a few. Sunset Key West The days I went down the Key West and the place was full and buzzing. Back in '91 Gay Pride wasn't as public and "out there" as it is now.