Our Interests? Lucy The Cat, Travel, Movies, Reading, Photography & Eating Spice Foods!

Lucy The Cat!
We enjoy scratching the cats - Lucy adopted us from across the street. Gouger, Snidely and Beau are now together, helping to raise poppies in the back yard. Gouger died a few years ago, and I still miss him dearly. Lucy's parents (Marybeth and Tony and sons) are great, but her brother and sister cats and dogs were bugging her too much.

Lucy The Cat, surveying her domain!

We really enjoy being with each other, eating out and going to movies (I bet you could tell that from our web site), travelling, eating spicy foods, riding on steam trains and photographing Art Deco buildings.

Carol's British (born in Newcastle-on-Tyne... and now a proud American Citizen) and Ira's Yiddish!, which makes for some interesting times.

We like to travel, and have been focusing on "infill" travelling the past few years - Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Missouri, & South Carolina . I'll have been to all 50 states once I visit Alaska and North Dakota.

I used to say that we've been as far west as Mendocino, but in 2003 we went to Australia & New Zealand, where we climbed the Sydney Harbor Bridge for Ira's birthday!. We've and have been as far east as Budapest, Hungary (on a trip to Prague, Vienna & Budapest).

Carol says that "there's nothing Ira likes more than being in a new city with a bunch of guidebooks and maps" and I'd have to say that she's right. I'm trained as an engineer, and always love reading maps and guidebooks and figuring out how to see 12 hours of sightseeing in 6 hours. That's why I enjoy guidebooks so much.

Ira's a train buff - enjoys riding on trains, taking pictures of them, and listening to the whistles.

Carol has been an avid gardener in the past, but now really enjoys reading. We both love Art Deco architecture and design.