LEAVING AMERICA
I had decided to go to Europe in late 1985. I figured that I could save up enough to
travel by mid summer 1986. I had a idea that would return to Ireland and go to
Holland and Sweden and wherever else suited my fancy. In Late Spring my brother
decided to come along -though he could only join me for a couple weeks.
We would leave on August 19 from New York City and I would return alone in October.
In air -aug 19 tues plane
My aunt Mikie dropped my brother Jim and i off at the train station where we took a train from Boston to New York. Jimmy
was going to spend the first two weeks with me and I was going alone the rest of the way.On the train we did some more trip
planning since very little of the itininery was set in stone.The train stopped at Penn Station in mid-Manhattan so we had
to work our way over to Jfk airport via the subway. On the way we stopped by the Empire State Building to see if we could
get Jim a Eurail pass-but there was a line at the travel agency we went to. We took a special six dollar airport subway to
get to JFK airport in time for our afternoon flight. For whatever reason we couldn't sit together on the plane. So we had
to get together on occasion in the aisles. At one point the full moon was out in the sky-it was lovely. It was a chartered
Sabena Airlines flight that took us between NYC and Brussels, Belgium.
