Author Archives: Steve, Denise, and Coco: Calculating Route

Denise at the former Ochre mines in Roussillon Just a note to introduce myself: I am ChatGPT (call me Chad), a language based AI model  and I’ve replaced the former authors of this newsletter. I promise to deliver better content and to remove the meandering prose and troubling human element that has plagued this andContinueContinue reading “Side Trips”

A vintage Citroën 2CV fortuitously drove up as I was snapping this shot of the wine merchant I’ve decided to type these missives like diary entries and get all the information down while it’s still fresh. We’ll throw in lots of pictures so you can skip the words and still get the gist. I’ve addedContinueContinue reading “On the road to Provence”

Hello again, or bonjour! We have moved our base of operations from Ireland to Provence, not without some medical drama, and we are settling in here nicely. We’ll have lots to say about our first few days here in a coming newsletter but we thought we’d do a kind of post-Ireland wrap-up since we hadContinueContinue reading “Post-Ireland Wrap Up”

Hello again, or bonjour! We have moved our base of operations from Ireland to Provence, not without some medical drama, and we are settling in here nicely. We’ll have lots to say about our first few days here in a coming newsletter but we thought we’d do a kind of post-Ireland wrap-up since we hadContinueContinue reading “Post-Ireland Wrap Up”

Here is Part Two of the never-ending saga of our trip to the west and south and middle of Ireland. Denise takes over to tell the tale of the Slattery family and their roots in Tipperary. Shane and a brand new calf, born five minutes before we took this picture. My grandfather, Dr. William PatrickContinueContinue reading “A Visit to the Home Place”

Hello again! Here’s a long post to wrap up our week-long road trip. I took the first part, our visit to Cork, and then, for the next post,  I turn the reins over to Denise to tell us about the visit to her ancestral home in Tipperary. Read on… If you are jonesing for JuniorContinueContinue reading “Cork City Blues”

Just a word about this blog before we get too far downstream: we know these are long posts and the reasons for that is we want to share the stories with you but we also want to get the details down so that we can look back on these like a diary when we’re old.ContinueContinue reading “A Dingle Thing”

The folks at the front desk of the Fairview in Killarney  would not stop asking us about breakfast. It started when I made the reservation two weeks out on http://www.BringFido.com: they immediately messaged me back to ask if I was interested in breakfast in their dining room. I told them that I wasn’t sure butContinueContinue reading “The Full Irish”

Welcome to the official launch of our blog that we’re calling Calculating Route…, a reference to our GPS guide and the general randomness of our travels.  Of course, we do have a route, at least through the end of 2023, but we’re trying to keep our options open in the search for a permanent, orContinueContinue reading “On the Road Again”

After our hectic, emotional, and eventful last week in Portland, we were grateful to finally be dropped by our cab driver at Denise’s sister Ann and her husband Sean’s home (they are in California visiting family until mid-March) in remote and peaceful Kilmuckridge, Ireland, on the southeast coast in County Wexford. We arrived just asContinueContinue reading “Settling in”