Angspar on The Move

“I’ve got you signed up to AOL, what do you want your email address to be”? It was 1995, David and I had just gotten our first PC and were finally hooked up to the world wide web. After a blank look from us, our friend Stephen explained we needed a screen name. We had no idea, until our Scottish terrier, Angus wandered into the room. Five years earlier, when we took our new puppy to veterinarian we weren’t married yet, so on the file the office wrote ‘Angus Sparschu Phillips’ (ANGSPAR). It was the perfect screen name. Since then we have had five computers, changed our internet service many times and lost Angus to spleen cancer in the Summer of 2000. When it came time to name this blog, ANGSPAR On The Move seemed a fitting moniker.

From our early days of dating, travel has always been important to us. When we lived in Orlando, getaway weekends included St. Augustine, FL and Savannah, GA as well as our annual Christmas visit to my family in Port Huron, Michigan. After relocating to Port Huron, my sister convinced us to join her on a trip to Greece in 2000. After 10 days in Europe, we were captivated. We learned something exciting about travel, while it was great to visit new places and try new dishes; it was meeting new people and experiencing their customs that was the biggest thrill.

Over the last few years, we were fortunate enough to have acted on our new obsession and visited many different countries and cities in Europe and the Middle East. Quickly we realized that we did not have an effective avenue for chronicling our memories. The first attempt at a journal was prose and poetry about the ports as we cruised on the Mediterranean or about the countryside as we traveled through Tuscany by tour bus. Pam and I had very different ideas about how the description of events should appear in a journal and clever prose was not in her vision. The idea of blogging makes sense as we can both contribute and we can include pictures from each day’s travels.

This November we will keep in touch as we cruise the Danube and experience Prague. We would love to hear your feedback, so let us know your thoughts.