A quick list/comments on the folks on the tour:
Kendrick Bus driver from Cleveland...easy going great guy
Dan Lindsay tour boss from Kentucky - former track coach at Morehead St...still a runner...doing all the announcing with the bus microphone "wake up calls at 8...bus leaves at 9" I sat with him at the first cubs game told me many life stories
Pat & Bev from near Hershey PA - Nice old couple he is 80ish she maybe younger first people I met in hotel their spouses dies and they got together, Bev's 90+ aunt died and she was telling me that story bad old folks home - any kids reading this out there send me to assisted (or unassisted) suicide before warehousing me in a home....pleasant talk on fun bus trip but nice people.
Richard retired truck driver from Colorado - my good friend on the tour everyone likes him the only other guy besides me thatbrought his glove so my catching partner a lot of catches before boarding bus. Very blunt black and white dude...living alone had a bad leaving wife story. we swam at the hotel pool one day too. so this is the guy I most connected with.
Andy Webb his son Sam 18ish and dad Charlie 80-ish with bad wheels... from near Trenton NJ here...his son is looking at colleges. Three generations really gave the tour a nice feel...has been on a few tours. And he's checking off Ballparks that I need to start doing.
Rose and John Hamden CT! Rose a huge RedSox fan John a yankee fan nice people.
Marion and Ken from Edmonton - really nice couple Ken joined our catches sometimes was very excited - throwing bullets - they came a day early in Chicago too and did chicago sightseeing - boat cruise and bus jump on/off tour.
JC and Harry from San Diego - a couple of guys that seem very southern...JC a heavy guy wisecracking. Harry his straight man with a whisper voice
Lowell and Janet from Milwaukee but originally from Pittsburgh. I befriended them especially Lowell who knew his baseball...complaing on a milwaukee decision ongoing on whether to build a new ballpark. They had Brewers and Pirates attire...they ate with me at Chopt in Old Greenwich when we strangely stopped at that shopping center after the Yankee game.
Bill and Grace from Fresno - big people - Bill seemed a little 'needy' I liked Grace.
Jim and Cindy From ?? Cubs & Red Sox fan - talked to them one morning. Jim was a HS baseball coach for 40(?) years. Their daughter had/has(?) breast cancer - Cindy wearing 'Fight Cancer' shirts. She is very nice he is too but on the surly side never saw him smile.
Bob and Rose from Texas - Bob short guy with a long grey beard...wife Rose asian phillipine maybe...nice but Bob is one of the Back-of-the-bus group a 'me too' guy constant chatter...the reason I had to move mid trip to the front of the bus.
David and Jim from North Carolina - on the Back-of-the-bus group. They are friend that do many of these and other tours together. David in his 50s Jim 60/70's both heavy...David an IT guy Jim retired. Both nice enough all these guys are experts on many things - hard for asshole Frank from CT to take
Dave the HOF drunk from Ohio. OMG this guy has been on 3 trips a year since 2008? They gave him a Diamond Tours HallOfFame T-Shirt at the start of the trip. Quiet in the morning starts drinking as we approach the ballpark ..little guy squeaky voice...in his 70s but looks older. He's very annoying but harmless. A big reason I moved to the front of the bus.
I feared most the long bus rides but they break it up so well that it wasn't bad. For the long 4 hour trips there were only 2 of those(?), we would stop for bathroom breaks and stop for lunch/dinner. They also played baseball related moves (we saw Fever Pitch with Jimmy Fallon and Drew Barrymore which is bad movie but not horrible about a RedSox fanatic on the way to our per-Boston hotel) we also saw an episode of Corner Gas LINK which is pretty funny...so the planning is very well done. Bus broke down once but they swapped busses overnight - it is a very comfortable bus (Barron Busses Link).
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