Until I board a flight bound for Dublin. Yeah…I’m a bit excited, which is why I’m sharing 
::dances around the pub for a bit::
I hear it’s pretty rough over there.
The Izz can take 'em. Not to worry.
I never heard of someone being that excited to go to Ohio but yeah those farmers and sheep can be a bit rough 
Hey!!! They have a really great Irish festival in Dublin…and they’re not all that rough if you know how to handle 'em 
No, it is rough there. Locals pronounce chimney “chimley,” and restaurants with names like Der Alpine Alpa specialize in fried foods and being home to the “World’s Largest Cuckoo Clock.”
Oh, and if you want to see it? You have to fork over a dime and pass through a turnstile. That’s after about the worst meal you ever ate. And you get up there and it’s lame.
Still, I bought a mug, because I couldn’t imagine anything dorkier and I wanted to commemorate it.
Oh, but as for the other Dublin…I was there once, in 1981. With my parents and family. We got to spend one whole day in Ireland because the air traffic controllers had gone on strike which hacked about 5 days off our trip. Then we flew to London.
Mainly I remember sitting in a department store with my sister (she was 20, I was 19,) and a couple of American boys spotted us and outed us as Yanks. They could just tell, they said.
Coulda bin Cleveland. 
djm
Now she tells me..
Slan,
D.
I was just thinking of this tonight, wondering if it wasn’t almost time for
THE TRIP!
You’ve gotta keep me posted 'cause I don’t think I’ll ever get to make it myself.
I’m going to take loads of pictures 
My mom very graciously sent me a camera she received when she took her early retirement (read “retire now before we lay you off”). She said she would never use it, so I could have it for Ireland. It’s way nicer than mine, which was a dinosaur, and smaller. I’m still a bit leery of the flying bit, but I’ll have to get over that one quickly, I think It still hasn’t really hit me yet…I don’t have the butterflies of excitement, LOL!
Mise fosta, a chara!
At exactly this time, exactly one month from now, barring flight delays, I’ll be landing at Shannon. It still doesn’t seem quite real…that after all this time planning and thinking about it, it’s finally about to happen.
You’ll do fine with the flying. Ná bí eagla ort!
Redwolf
Exactly one month from now and a day we’ll be celebrating my birthday in Ballyvaughan!
(and I will either be very happy or very sad about the results of my written driving test three days before, hehe.)
That’s “flyingcursor” or “flydood” though “flyingbit” is OK I guess.
If you want music, make sure to go into Monk’s on a sunday (around four-ish), either Brid O Donohue or Seamus Hynes playing there.
Nah, people in Cleveland don’t talk like that. We sound like Detroit and Chicago. From Columbus south you start getting the influence of Applachia. They have chimbleys.
Mike
Nice picture. Was that taken with a very wide angle lens or photo stitching?
5 shots with a 17mm stitched (top left and bottom right give it away), It’s a view from somewhere between Moneen and Ailwee mountain towards Ballyvaughan, about a month ago. First day of spring.
My son is big into that at the moment he did this one about a half a mile further, going up Ailwee and looking back on Moneen with Ballyvaughan on the left
Ah. I just got a new camera, a Canon SX100. It has that stitching feature. I’ve never tried using it before.