I honeymooned in London and Inverness, Scotland. Unfortunately I caught viral pneumonia heading out there so most of the honeymoon was a wash.

Tom....I also miss Tom. He was seriously chasing skirt in New Orleans for the DevConnections conference in 2000. He was fixated on this one girl, name withheld, but nothing ever came of it. Tom seemed more a romantic - he would see a girl he liked and then focus on her the rest of the conference. But he never was rude or forward. A true romantic.

The last time I saw him alive was in 2001 in San Diego for that ill-fated conference that just happened to be run when 9/11 occurred. I sat with Tom and offered to buy hm a drink but he refused and just drank water. He was trying to change himself. He wasn't the normal Tom; I dunno, maybe he knew something was wrong.

Several weeks before Advisor DevCon 2002 he emailed me and, to make a story short, was going to be my roommate since my room was paid for and his finances were tight. He passed away a few weeks before the conference.

That's it, now I've depressed myself thinking about Tom, Ed, Drew......

>>My honeymoon was in Hawaii, including three days on Kauai. Also three days on the big island. On both of them the old, unspoiled Hawaii was still alive. Bliss. We spent one entire day hiking the trail on the Ne Pali (sp.?) coast. My feet are still sore ;-) But it was gorgeous. It was a week day and we didn't see any other people the whole day. Just two newlyweds in paradise.
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>Doesn't *everyone* honeymoon in Hawaii? <g> I did too, but that was a long time ago ('77). A week in Waikiki, then a couple of days each on Maui, Kauai and the Big Island. Gary and I haven't been there at all ... he's not a tropical sort of guy.
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>>One of the last times I heard from our old pal Tom Piper was from Hawaii. You probably know he went there every year and stayed at the Royal Hawaiian. (When he found out Tricia and I stayed there the first two nights of our honeymoon he sent us both T shirts. A very generous man). He had his eye on two young women who were staying there and had talked with him the night before. They were Australians in their late 20s. Unsurprisingly, the one he was zeroing in on was the younger of the two ;-) He thought he had a good shot that night.
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>Good ol' Tom. Boy, I sure miss him! He *always* thought he had a "good shot" with the "20-something girls". <g>
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>~~Bonnie