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A friend is running in the Berlin Marathon next month. He's run New York, Chicago, and has plans on running all the big ones (e.g. Toyko, Boston). It's a blessing to accompany his wife and son on the trip. There are six or seven of us going to help support. After the marathon, we'll re-visit places we haven't been to in decades. My wife and I really enjoyed Germany in 1995 -- except for the surprise Liver and Onions meal I was served. It is a beautiful country with very hospitable people. We won't make it to the Octoberfest in Munich this time -- that's a young man's game. We've gained some wisdom and will stick to the smaller celebrations. We\'re hoping to see our daughter who lives in Ireland and friends in Amsterdam. Praying the weather is as we remember in late September.
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The Ashland Strawberry Faire (a street festival with food and craft vendors and entertainment throughout the day) was held on Saturday June 3. The council helped on Friday June 2 for a few hours with set up. The council picked up trash from the trashcans that are set up on the streets in around Randolph-Macon College in Ashland. And, with the cleanup and storage duties.
Thank you to all brother Knights who helped make the Ashland Strawberry Faire trash pickup such a great success. It was a beautifully warm and sunny day, and the crowds had a wonderful time. We raised over $1,000 for the council, and made a great visible demonstration of our community service. It was great to have time to walk and talk about something other than election slates and budgets. ;-)
Joe Letteri and Brother Wayne Cocke brought Gators which made the work much smoother than in year's past.
Thanks to:
Joe Letteri
John Curtis
Zach Curtis
Gregg Palmer
Todd Stephenson
Ed McPherson
Clem Gross
Jim Hartigan
Maggie Hartigan
Myron Kostyk
Wayne Cocke
Steve Mohring and family
Bernie Kurtzwiel for putting together the SignupGenius page.
Here's some lessons learned for for next year:
* Bring one more pickup truck to the storage facility. It'd be good to make one trip rather than two.
* Keep Carts running on back streets. Don't try to navigate through the crowd. Bring trash to the end of the streets and have gators constantly looping?
* Don't drive on non-Faire city streets.
* Don't be too aggressive swapping out bags. Let things get to 80% full before using a new bag. We had to buy more.
* Remember to check the Randolph-Macon trash bags in the Faire area. Keep them from overflowing.
* Figure out if we need to take vendor trash or not.
There were three dumpsters this year. We should confirm which are available for use.
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We went to Spain to walk a bit of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camino_de_Santiago. We went from Pamplona to Lograno -- didn't make it to Compostela ... this time. Each day, we'd wake up, get breakfast, and start walking to the next town. When we arrived, we checked into our lodgings, took a shower and/or a nap. Headed out for dinner, then bed. Then, back at it again the next day. We met many people who were doing the whole journey -- impressive. It takes more weeks more than we could be away. And yet, it'd be nice to try.
Here's some pictures with little to no further commentary.
http://hartiganconsulting.com/lib/pics/Camino22/
The trip started in Bilbao where we walked the 10k that was part of the Night Marathon. What a great way to see a city and get a t-shirt to Camino in. Bilbao is a beautiful city with elegant, and welcoming residents. The Guggenheim was very picturesque.
After the Camino, we headed to Barcelona to tour the https://sagradafamilia.org/en/. Quite a holy site. There's a Taco Bell across the street, but we had no time to stop in.
After Barcelona, we trained to San Sebastian. Hanging out on the beach at the end of October is unnerving, but it was awesome. We didn't swim, but others were in the water with no wet suits. Global warming.
We spent the last night in Lisbon, Portugal. Like New York City, this place was frantic and didn't sleep on Halloween. We were older than everyone at the hostel we stayed in (including staff). It was incredible. Too short.
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Who could have imagined what 2021 would have wrought.
Ugh. Please God let 2022 be better -- more events, more chances to see people. Less being cooped up staring at screens. Bring back the '80s. All the best.
