leave

a week in the hawaiian islands wasn’t enough, so now we’re in the UK.  the day after getting back, we drove to charleston, hopped on a C-17, and landed at mildenhall air force base, about 70 miles or so north of london.  as a guardsman, i usually can’t travel “space available” overseas, and i can’t go space a with the mrs at all.  but, since i’m on active duty status right now and am on leave, we can.  the plan is to spend a couple days in london, then a couple days in paris (to include valentine’s day), and then come home via rota, spain next weekend.  

we drove to charleston saturday, had dinner at hyman’s (consistently rated as the top seafood restaurant in the southeast– http://www.hymanseafood.com) …where we sat at a table previously used by Jodie Foster and Bob Villa (not on the same night)… had drinks at an irish pub called tommy condon’s, and then walked around a couple cemeteries before heading back to base, where we napped an hour in the parked car before our 1am showtime.  the c-17 left about 3am.  the flight was actually more enjoyable than a commercial airline would’ve been, b/c of our having the freedom to lie down on the ground of the plane and sleep.  only took 7.5 hours.  got here, checked into space-a billeting, and had dinner at an off-base pub called “bird in the hand” we walked to (after wandering in the dark for 30min or so trying to find it). 

i’ll attempt to post our adventures every day or so and then upload pictures when we get back…