Here she is! Cyndi Lauper!

While we wait, another picture – this one with Bas holding our backstage passes up for viewing.

The Traveling Richters are on the road again, albeit for just about a week. Today found us in Plano learning from friend at Texas Instruments how DLP technology works to put crisp images on our large screen TVs and now we’re at SuperPages.com Center for the True Colors Tour concert featuring Cyndi Lauper.

We’re presently waiting to participate in something called a Meet & Greet involving Cyndi, whose birthday it coincidentally happens to be today. We are prepared with Bonaire-related gifts for her.

The travel bug is never quite distant here in The Traveling Richters’ household.

We’ve just confirmed a trip starting in mid-November 2008 that will start us in Quito, Ecuador for a view days before we fly out to the Galapagos Islands to see the places that gave Charles Darwin his “Eureka!” moment about the idea of evolution and natural selection. Ten days later we get to Lima, Peru, and from there set forth on an expedition to see the high altitude village of Cuzco, and the even higher altitude Incan ruins of Machu Picchu before a return to Lima, and then ultimately home to Bonaire.

Prior to then we have a one week trip to Texas this month to see a concert and study the Alamo in San Antonio.

And we’re in the throes of trying to figure out exactly what all we want to do on a trip that starts us in Nova Scotia in early October 2008, and lands us in New Hampshire to visit family later in the month (hoping to catch some stunning fall foliage along the way, of course). Any suggestions or ideas would be welcome. One thing definitely on the list is to go out on the water with a Maine lobster man and learn more about the business of catching lobsters, firsthand.

We are also planning on hooking up with friends at a conference/retreat in Tucson, Arizona over President’s Day Weekend in February 2009.

Beyond that my tentative court and work schedule looks pretty full, so we’ll have to steal time for other trips as such time becomes available.

More details are in the Current Itineraries link at right.