 Rob's
Foreign Travels
I've now travelled fairly extensively in America - seeing such places as New
York, Washington DC, Boston, Hartford, Raleigh-Durham, Montreal, Rhode Island, San Diego
and Los Angeles. Mostly this was thanks to the help of my friends - see below!
I have gone many other places in Scotland and the UK (e.g. Jersey) but have
never bothered to put together a web page for these trips - maybe someday when
I've got nothing else to do...
Last Update:
Monday May 01, 2006
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2002 - Boston - long weekend trip to
visit friends.
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2001 - New England in the Fall (Connecticut & Massachusetts)
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1996 - North & South Carolina & Rhode Island
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1996 - Connecticut & Massachusetts in the snow
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 My Friends The Marianos
Sally (see below) introduced me to her friend Carla in 1995, then in 1998 (I
think!) Carla's sister Jana was studying in London and decided to come up to
visit me and my family even though she didn't know any of us - a bit of a brave gamble
for her but it seems to have paid off!
Our two families are now in close contact
and
my Mum is a good friend of Jana's mum Nancy.
My Friends Andy & Sally
 None of my
American trips would have been possible if it hadn't been for my good friends Andy
& Sally McRory.
I met Andy through CompuServe's UK Forum in around 1994 where he was looking for information about
Scotland - we became email pals (the modern equivalent of pen-pals).
He visited Scotland and we all had a fantastic time showing him around our wee country
- he must have been impressed because he brought his wife Sally back with him in May 96
and we did it all again - even the ceilidh - he then returned in 1997 to do
research for a book and again with Sally in 1999 when we toured Scotland and
Ireland together.
My Friends Dave & Sandy
 Impressed with what the internet could do, I then invested a wee bit of time in the
"Internet Phone".
The first time was just for a joke really, then on the second occasion I started
talking to this interesting couple called Dave & Sandy Freeman in Boston and we soon
became friends!
We met in Boston the next time I was there and they spoiled me rotten and took me to
some great restaurants and I hope to see them again sometime really soon since they live
in one of my favourite cities in the world....not that I've been to that many!
InternetPhone was a very early precursor to the new Voice Over IP (VOIP) -
I'm amazed it worked so well in teh mid 1990s. |
