| September 18: | Arrive Shannon, drive to Salthill (suburb of Galway) |
| September 19: | The Burren / Cliffs of Moher loop |
| September 20: | Galway to Sligo via Connemara
Shopping at Avoca Handweavers in Letterfrack. All about the Peat Bogs at Connemara National Park Kylemore Abbey (home of Benedictine nuns) Sunset in Leenane at the head of Killary harbor (Ireland's only Fjord). We'll be going back here for sure. |
| September 21: | Sligo to Greystones (suburb south of Dublin)
Explored Sligo. Picture stop in Jamestown on the Shannon. |
| September 22: | Dublin
Tried to avoid the rabid All-Ireland Football crowds (Kerry vs Armaugh - Armaugh won). Lunch at Wagamama! Guiness Storehouse tour The only Unitarian church in Dublin |
| September 23: | Greystones to Ballycotton via Sandy Cove.
The Joyce Museum in the Joyce Tower. "The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea." Dinner at the Ballymaloe School of Cookery in Shanagarry. |
| September 24: | Ballycotton to Cork City to Kinsale.
Explore Cork City, Marks and Spencer, Cork Butter Museum |
| September 25: | Kinsale to Dingle via Cork City and Killarney
Blarney (but not the stone). Outlet Centre and Internet Cafe in Killarney! |
| September 26: | Dingle to Patrickswell (south of Limerick) via Tralee.
Tour of the Dingle Peninsula, including the Famine cottage and Blasket Island Centre Lough Gur (largest stone circle in Ireland) |
| September 27-28: | Patrickswell to Shannon to Dublin to Chicago to Las Vegas to Portland. |
