We arrived in Kansas City on October 13 only to leave the following day. We met our son Eric in Washington DC to attend an open house at Galludet University as he is considering going back to school. Was a great weekend and we came away with a good feeling about him making another attempt at a college degree.

After Washington we both had to go to work then following work we both headed to Myrtle Beach. Jim for his golf week with the boys and Jamie for her girls week. After Myrtle Beach Jim picked up a trip to Dublin for a little extra cash and to give Jamie a chance to get wined and dined in first class and hang out in Ireland for a day. It was a great trip. We walked around Dublin for the afternoon, had dinner at Jamie’s favorite steakhouse in Europe and listened to some music at the famous Temple bar in Dublin. We also had a beer at Ireland’s oldest bar, The Brazen Head, established originally in 1198.

When we got back we finally made it back to Kansas City after being away for two and a half weeks only to come home to a broken mirror on the rv. A utility truck backed into the mirror and snapped it off. Fortunately, he left a note on our door with their contact information so they are going to pay for the damages. Unfortunately, it takes a month to get a new mirror so we have to have it sent ahead to an rv repair shop at our next destination, which will be Oklahoma City.

Anyway, we spent the next few days recovering from being away so long, doing laundry, neglected paperwork and figuring out how we were going to deal with the mirror issue. The only touristy thing we did that week was go to a town called Weston that was recommended to us. On the way we hit a distillery where we ended up replenishing some of our liquor supply then a winery that we decided we didn’t like so bought nothing. Then we had dinner and hit the Weston brewery which has a pretty cool history. It was originally established in 1842 and claims to be the oldest brewery west of the Hudson River. They dug deep cellars into the ground which are still there today. They have a pub across the street from the distillery with a tunnel accessed beneath some stairs that can be raised to go between the pub and the brewery. There is 3 levels to the pub, the upstairs dining room, the lower level bar and a basement level bar where they have music playing certain days of the week. We really enjoyed checking this place out.