Of Mice and Men

It was ever thus. You spend years creating a master plan and it immediately starts to unravel on execution. So it is with Route 66 2011. I now have to go to a meeting in Washington DC on 21 April so that rules out the choreographed departure arrangements for we three on the 22nd. Instead I'll head for DC on 20th and my trip will start from there.

Meanwhile Brendan and Seamus will start from Dublin on 22 April. They will head for Chicago O'Hare (ORD) while I will arrive in Chicago Midway (MDW). I should be ahead of them and be able to prepare the way. John has done that since time immemorial!

Getting kicks already on this Route 66. Amtrax have also entered the fray and advised us that our intended train ride to St. Louis is off so they have re booked us on a later train. That limits our time in St. Louis but there you go - see how we are mellowing with time! Hertz assure us they are ready with the car we want, at the time we want, at the location we want!?

Brendan - in charge of the music for the trip - started to muse along the lines that Ah well the best laid plans of mice and men then realised ….. wait a minute, that’s a novel by John Steinbeck who also wrote the Grapes of Wrath which is all about a journey along the mother road to the promised land of California and the mother road is another name for route 66, so it’s all connected, it’s all good, the karmic wheel keeps on turnin’, proud Mary keeps on burnin’ , rollin’, rollin’

Next step is to meet up on Friday in HRC, Dublin. Let the trip begin!