I am so far behind on this thread it's embarrassing. We've been to Kyoto, Nara, Hiroshima, Kurashiki, and Nasushiobara in Japan. In England we've been to Loughborough, Hadrian's Wall (Stayed in Slaley), York, Lancaster, Ogbourne St. George, Avebury, Lacock, Stonehenge, Devizes, and I am now sitting in Bath. Tomorrow we are headed for Abergavenney for a restful three days on a narrowboat. Then it's off for the Whitby Folk Festival.

I am writing these adventures up on paper and will get them into digital form and on the thread as sson as I can get up close and personal with a computer, probably from my parent's house in Maine next month.

This morning we met a Russian family at our hotel. They had driven from Russia through nine countries. We gave them some souvenirs of Guam and they gave us a couple of Russian spoons. The trade goods are working out!