Dispatch from London
This trip is a lot different from our last long vacation. Then (2009) we were going mainly to warm places and we managed to pack everything we needed into two roll-on bags. This time, we're visiting Scotland in October and Paris in November. We needed two big bags to contain all the warm layers, walking shoes, rain pants, and so on. And... "and so on" included nice(r) pants and shoes, since we knew we were going to the theatre in London. Which lead, to my complete amazement, to Ralph's polishing his shoes. Some of you might think, based on long observation, that neither of us owns a pair of leather shoes. Wrong! We can get gussied up when we have to. But nothing in my experience prepared me for the sight of Ralph polishing his long-neglected black shoes. I don't expect to ever see it again. Tom and Mark were kind enough to drop us at the Santa Rosa Airport, where we got the bus to SFO and our 7:30 pm flight to London....