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    specific travelogues.

    BACK to DINGLE, IRELAND - 2010 

   Revisiting Coast of Southwestern Ireland for a week and

    nearby, awe-inspiring artwork and craftsmanship of

    Dingle Crystal, Holden Leather and Mulcahy Pottery

    plus beauty of Slea Head and Cheann Sibeal Golf Course.

    SEINE RIVER CRUISE,

    NORMANDY to PARIS - 2009

    A week visiting Normandy Beaches, Monet's Gardens at Giverny,

      Joan of Arc's Market Square at Rouen, and Paris landmarks.

      CALIFORNIA DREAMING - 2009

    Revisiting Lewis Nolan's teen haunts including Sutter Lawn in

       Sacramento, 50-year reunion of Sac State college fraternity

       near Lodi, and surfing beaches at Santa Cruz.

     ROME Plus CRUISE - 2009

    Visit to Rome, Italy followed by 10-day cruise in 

       Western Mediterranean with stops in Italy, Spain, and

       Tunisia's ancient Carthage ruins in North Africa

     ALASKA CRUISE - 2008
      An eight-part account of a week cruising the Inland Passage with

      stops in Skagway, Glacier Bay and Ketchikan plus visit to

      Vancouver and fabulous Bouchart Gardens in Victoria, Canada.

     DANUBE ODYSSEY - 2007
      Two weeks cruising on the river through Austria, Germany,

      Hungary and Slovakia.

     AMSTERDAM - 2005
      A week in wild, wonderful and wicked Amsterdam, Holland.

  DRIVING thru DIXIE  - 2005

  Visits to Atlanta, Savannah, Lynchburg, Appomattox Court  House,    Charleston, Fort Sumter, and twentieth century war memorials in Washington, D.C.

     NOVA SCOTIA - 2004
      A short cruise and a whale of a time in the Bay of Fundy.

     TUBAC, AZ - 2004
      Thanksgiving at Tubac Golf Resort and Nogales, Mexico.

     ENGLAND - 2003
      Our return to London and visits to Bath and beautiful

      St. Ives in Cornwall.

     DINGLE - 2003
      Our third trip to Ireland's remote Dingle Peninsula

      to visit ancient ruins.

     SOUTHWEST - 2002
       4,100-mile driving trip with visits to botanic gardens

       in Dallas, Flagstaff and Santa Barbara; Sedona and

      Tubac, Ariz.; and California's Hearst Castle, Getty Center

      and Venice Beach.

     IRELAND - 2002
      A week on the rugged Dingle Peninsula.

     PARIS to the COTE D'AZUR - 2001
      A week's cruise down the Saone and Rhone Rivers

      with stays in Arles, Avignon and Paris.

     MINNESOTA MEMORIES - 2000
      A pilgrimage to Cass Lake, Bemidji & Lake Itasca.

     WAY OUT WEST - 1999
      Travel by convertible and plane to Santa Fe, Taos,

      Grand Canyon, Palm Springs, Honolulu and Hope, Ark.

     MAUI - 1998
      A week of golf, sightseeing and snorkeling

     IRELAND - 1997
      On the famine trail in search of ancestral roots

     KAUAI & CALIFORNIA - 1993
      A six-part account of 10 days in Kauai, Hawaii plus

      a few days in California's Sacramento and Napa Valley.

      IRELAND ROOTS - 1991

       Tracing Nolan family roots in ancestral homeland of

       Ballinasloe plus playing golf at Bally bunion,

       Killarney, and Waterville.

      CAMPING in NEW ENGLAND

    on the cheap - 1976

    Newspaper reporter's rhapsodic account (with links to photos),

       first published in the Memphis Commercial Appeal, of Lewis

       and Betty Nolans' 18-day, low-cost, 2,500-mile camping trip

       with their 15-month-old son, Casey, to popular New England

       vacation spots including Bar Harbor, Maine, Cape Cod, the

       Island of Nantucket, Mass., Niagara Falls and elsewhere.

       Expenses by major categories are presented.