In Memory of Casen - 2025

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 We arrived in Cape Cod, MA on October 24. We were staying on a Coast Guard Base near Buzzards Bay. We enjoyed a great dinner at an Irish restaurant and made plans to head out to Provincetown the next day. Our 2025 trip was ended with a phone call in the early morning of October 25 when we learned that our grandson was killed in a tragic vehicle accident. 

Let's go back a year, we made arrangements with our daughter to let Casen spend a year with us. We left with him in June of 2024. We visited so many places and did so many things. After our summer/early fall travels were over, he spent the winter with us in Fairhope, AL and then we left again in April of 2025 and spent time adventuring the sites in the big five National Parks in Utah. 

Enjoy the memories we made with him ... until we meet again!



























































































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