Ireland or Bust!

Well, the day has arrived. I just hada couple of things for everyone:

Make sure you have your passport, and medication (if you need it). Everyting else we can get along the way if we need too. Thanks, in advance, for you patients with me... it will be a great trip!

Here is an email my mom sent me... I think it is fitting:

Have a wonderful time on your travels to Ireland.
St. Augustine of Hippo wrote, "The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only one page." Travel changes us, sometimes superficially, sometimes profoundly. It is a classroom without walls. This is from the introduction to the book "1,000 Places To See Before You Die", by Patricia Schultz. She also quotes Mark Twain, who says, " Travel is fatal to predjucide, bigotry and narrowmindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts." Travel dispels many of our bad impressions, confirms the positive, and promises innumerable surprises!

More important than packing a bag full of money, pack a bag full of patience and curiosity; allow yourself-encourage yourself-to be sidetracked and to get lost. There's no such thing as a bad trip, just good travel stories to tell back home. Always travel with a smile and remember that you're the one with the strange customs visiting someone else's country. Relying on the kindness of strangers isn't naive, there are good people wherever you go. The more time you spend coming to understand the ways of others, the more you'll understand yourself.

Mr. Twain says,"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did."

Happy Travels

love mom
 
Gotta love Momma Smith, she is wise beyond her years!