October - December 2019

The Erie County Senior Center travel trips are popular with retirees. Many enjoy traveling as a group and appreciate that someone else is doing the driving and making all of the arrangements. The trips are relaxing, and fun, and destinations are interesting places to visit. Recent trips included Colonial Williamsburg, Mount Rushmore, Mackinac Island, New York City, Philadelphia, and Alaska (a cruise!). Debbi Miller crossed the sea this summer as well. She traveled to Europe with her son Dr. Carl Miller, Professor of English at Palm Beach Atlantic University, Florida. Debbi reports that she was very proud to attend his presentation at the International Research Society for Children’s Literature Congress in Stockholm. They explored Sweden and France during their two-weeks stay, riding high speed trains, and climbing to the top of a 106 meter high tower to see a panoramic view of Stockholm. They “walked in, danced out” of the ABBA Museum, visited the Nobel Prize Museum, and enjoyed an exhibit on Pippi Longstocking author Astrid Lindgren. In France, they saw the Notre Dame Cathedral, Monet’s water lily gardens in Giverny and visited the D-Day beaches in Normandy, which Debbi describes as “a very sobering site.” They went in search of their family’s history in northern France and found this beautiful church. One of the highlights of the trip for Debbi was when, “Carl and I walked to the medieval town of Altenstadt and found St. Ulrich’s Roman Catholic Church where some of my ancestors worshipped beginning in the 1600’s. The church was built in the 11th Century. The tombstones of some distant ancestors are in the churchyard cemetery.” Grand Adventure? 11 www.servingourseniors.org