WE'RE AT THE AIRPORT, in Tampa !

Greetings, loyal and new readers,

It's about 4pm, Tampa time and Renee and I are sitting here at the Continental Airlines A-4 gate awaiting our departure to the fair state of New Jersey. All has gone really well today. Our airport limo showed up on time and got us here early. Our luggage, our massive amount of heavy luggage, got checked in smoothly. I wasn't anticipating it going THAT well, but it did. The people at Continental acutually worked with us on that one and helped us save a BUNCH of money by shifting 3lbs. of stuff from one bag to another. Amazing...

We have partaken of some overpriced, but not too bad airport food at TGIFridays. We have made it through the inspection team with little or no mishap, Renee and I both forgot to take our laptops out of our carry on bags. Whoops! No problem, though. Our flight out of here is scheduled to take off about 20 minutes later than it was supposed to, but we'll see . . .

Our spirits are high, and our best wishes go out to all of you and thanks again for your understanding and support of this adventure.

Slan, (Irish for "see you later")

Kevin and Renee