| December 2002 | discussion and agreeing to plan. |
| January 2003 | "formal announcement" of plan. |
| January 16, 2003 | decision on boat. |
| January 20, 2003 | confirmation of booking of Fjord Dutchess received. |
| January 24, 2003 | passport applications submitted. |
| February 3, 2003 | air fare research commenced. |
| February 18, 2003 | James IV's passport arrives. |
| February 20, 2003 | James III's passort arrives. |
| Delta through Atlanta selected as the airline and general route. |
| February 23, 2003 | Delta prices jump $368. |
| February 28, 2003 | Delta prices jump another $368, peaking at $2,296.86 for James III and IV. |
| March 20, 2003 | U.S. vs. Iraqi war begins. |
| April 4, 2003 | Purchase deadline for air tickets and ground transportation. |
| Purchase Delta tickets from St. Louis to Atlanta and on to Manchester at Expedia.COM. |
| Attempt to purchase Tiger Air Express tickets on line. |
| April 6, 2003 | E-mailed Andersen Boats to request support in finding a B&B and a taxi to get us from Manchester to Middlewich. |
| April 8, 2003 | Confirm Tiger Air Express tickets and found out they didn't have the reservations. Purchased them over the phone. |
| Recieved an e-mail from Andersen Boats with an e-mail address for the B&B and confirmation that a taxi has been layed on for us. |
| E-mailed the B&B, The Narrowboat Pub, detailing our room needs. The e-mail bounced. |
| E-mailed Andersen Boats requesting confirmation of the e-mail address for the B&B. |
| April 10, 2003 | J.Harry Cutts' tickets arrived.
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| April 11, 2003 | E-mailed Andersen Boats requesting confirmation of the e-mail address for the B&B. |
| April 12, 2003 | Received new e-mail address for the B&B. |
| E-mailed the B&B, The Narrowboat Pub, detailing our room needs. |
| April 15, 2003 | Tax Day. Fortunately, our taxes are done.
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| Received e-mail from The Narrowboat Pub offering choice of rooms. Forwarded choices to J.Harry who is paying for the B&B. |
| Updated Web Site. |
| 56 days left! The waiting is a bear! |
| April 16, 2002 | Notified that Delta moved the departure time of the flight from St. Louis to Atlanta forward by 5 minutes. |
| Posted the extensive revisions to the web site done off-line over the last week. |
| 55 days left! |
| April 24, 2003 | Order new Nicholson Canal Guide from Amazon.co.uk. The guide was not available from Amazon.com (US). | |
| 47 days left! |
| April 28, 2003 | Nicholson Guide "dispatched" from Amazon.co.uk. |
| 43 days left! |
| May 2, 2003 | Notified that Delta has again moved a arrival time into St.Louis on the return trip forward by
5 minutes. We will now be arriving back in St. Louis at 6:52pm |
| 39 days left! |
| May 3, 2003 | The Nicholson Guide arrived from England. |
| 38 days left! |
| May 6, 2003 | Received from J. Harry, the log files for the 1987 canal trip. Tremendous thunderstorms
during the afternoon and evening. Spent the evening converting the log files to HTML. Thank goodness for laptops. |
| 35 days left! |
| May 9, 2003 | Finished the conversion of the 1987 canal trip log files to HTML. Posted the new pages.
Revised the Boat Choices page to include links to the different companies and their logos. |
| 32 days left! |
| May 31, 2003 | I've been horrendously busy at work and I have not had must change to work on this
web site. Fortunately, the days have sped by and the trip is just around the corner. |
| 10 days left! |
| June 7, 2003 | Confirm flights with Delta. The flight was confirmed by Margaret Cutts. |
| 2 days left! |
| June 10, 2003 | Commence travel to Middlewich, Cheshire, England. |
| June 12, 2003 | J. Harry Cutts' birthday. |
| June 13, 2003 | Commence cruise on the Trent and Mersey canal on board the Fjord Dutchess. |
| June 27, 2003 | Return to Middlewich to return Fjord Dutchess. |
| June 29, 2003 | Commence travel back to Columbia, MO, USA. (If necessary) |
| July 2, 2003 | Return to work (if unavoidable). |
