Baseball Tour 2011 has in fact begun. We arrived in New York City
this evening but our adventure is not beginning here. I flew to
Phoenix on July 18 to pick up Ryan (11) and Logan (almost 10) and then
returned to Denver to begin this year’s adventure.

On Tuesday night we attended Coors Field to watch the Rockies take on
the Atlanta Braves to kick off the Tour and for the first time we
filled a fourth seat as Konnie joined us for this year’s inaugural
game. We were treated to a Rockies’ romp as they battered the Braves
12 to 3 behind a great outing by Ubaldo Jimenez. Ryan left the
stadium with another ball, bringing the boys’ total take to five balls
in the first seven games of our tours. I am still 0 for 62 years.

The rest of our schedule is Citi Field to watch the Mets take on the
Cardinals, Yankee Stadium for two with the Athletics, back to
Philadelphia to see the Phillies and Padres and wrapping up on July 27
at Nationals Park in Washington to see the Nationals and the Marlins,
completing the Tour which has us seeing every National League Eastern
Division team in action in one week.

Tonight it was dinner at Sinigual (excellent “Contemporary Mexican
Cuisine”) and a stroll around Manhattan including the incredibly
crowded Times Square. Off to Citi Field tomorrow.

This trip marks the one year anniversary of this blog which was
started so that family and friends could follow Baseball Tour 2010. I
ended up continuing it to cover all of our other travels and have
enjoyed hearing from all of you who follow us. Thanks and stay tuned.

PS  Perhaps I should mention that you can see a larger image and usually a caption by double clicking on the thumbnail image.