England itinerary — Aug. 31 to Sept. 12, 2011

My husband Jim and I took our first trip to England in October 2001, with airport security still high after 9/11 and me still a little fearful that something might happen in England, an eventuality that sadly came true in July 2005. And considering the expense of this trip, we’re probably not going to be to afford another such extravagance for another ten years, when we hope to go to Egypt. And we’re not even going to say “as long as the political situation in Egypt is stable,” because when is it ever?

And I’m writing this down here as a reminder to ourselves about our trip, preparatory to printing a book about our trip. I doubt anyone other than myself, my husband and my particular friend Lee, who with her brother Jim, joined us for the boat trip, will find any of this remotely interesting.

Departure: We left home about 7:30 a.m., Lee having kindly offered to drive us to the airport, her offer in no way influenced by her return from Spain Sept. 22 (she and her brother would leave England for 10 days in Spain at the conclusion of the boat trip).

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Jennifer Petkus divides her time between writing Jane Austen-themed mysteries, creating websites for the dead, woodworking, aikido and building model starships. She has few credentials, having failed to graduate from the University of Texas with a journalism degree, but did manage to find employment at the Colorado Springs Sun newspaper as a cop reporter, copy editor and night city editor before the paper died in 1986. She has done little since. Her husband is the night editor at The Denver Post. Her best friend is a cop. She watched Neil Armstrong walk on the Moon live. She is the author of, Good Cop, Dead Cop: A Novel about the AfterNet. She’s writing the sequel, The Background Noise of Souls, and another AfterNet related story, Jane Austen’s Book Tour.

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