Salt Lake City

Bone Marrow Bob can not stay still! Three days after he's back from vacation he's on the road again. Doesn't the Mormon Tabernacle Cathedral look a little like Disney Castle? The side view is taken from the visitor center, which was the only way to get a photo. BMB was approached to convert but the lady was a little taken aback by his appearance and backed off. Didn't Brigham Young have any imagination when it came to setting up a city? Couldn't he have come up with better names for streets than East, North, 900,etc? It makes Temple Drive sound unique. Here's a fact that you may not know if you are over a certain age, High School Musical is filmed at East High School. Located on East Street(see above) in Salt Lake.

The Radisson at the airport has its good points and bad points. Good: free happy hour served by maybe a distant Mormon relative, Tyler Savage.

Bad: the swimming is dry. What is it about airport hotels that they can't fill the pool(see Phoenix)

Trip Advisor

Well, purely on vacation, Surfer Bob went to the wine country. Napa Valley, to be exact. Here he is surfin the grapes. The food, wine and weather were all great.

A few trip advisory notes and observations: if you go to Frankfurt you can skip the doubledecker bus tour especially if it is at 4:00. The tour guide can be stereotypically German in his delivery," on the right.... on the left...." no stops for pictures. My favorite...last stop, get out enjoy and walk back to your hotel.

New York is still expensive in the dead of summer. You might think twice about staying at the Hemsley Park Lane. The rates and location are good but the interior is a little smarmy. Apparently it is for sale just as soon as Leona's will is out of probate.

Wondering what happen to Sarah Palin after she left office? I think she is a flight attendant for AA , and I might add, she is not doing any better at that job than governor.Ok so maybe it was just someone who looked like her.

Impossible Germany

It's really not impossible, that's just the name of a Wilco song. It was a very brief trip and the donor went over and above what most donors are asked to do. I can't go into details because who knows who reads this blog and might possibly figure out who's stem cells went to whom so I will leave it at that. I will say I wasn't sure of my flight until the very last minute, like when I was on the plane.

Don't you hate it when you go to Europe and all the sights are covered in scaffolding? This magnificent castle is half way surrounded. The good news is I've already seen it.

This cat sculpture guards the gate to the old city of Heidelberg. HE's holding a mirror but since I don't read German I don't know why.

Frankfurt has many wonderful museums. One I didn't go in, but Bob couldn't resist getting his picture taken with this character, is the Museum of Characaturas.