Our Normandy Diary
So, our trip to follow in the footsteps of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment began at Dulles Airport on September 7, 2023. My two sons, Devon and Sean, and I had been planning this trip for more than two years. The trip was initially to be a celebration of my 80th birthday, but schedules caused us to postpone it by more than a year. It was my wife Cindy who acted as our travel agent and set up the entire trip. Thanks, Cindy!
We flew into Charles de Gaulle airport, north of Paris, two days early and spent an interesting afternoon and the following full day walking the streets of Paris along with more than a few hundred thousand travelers in town for the International Rugby World Cup Games. The weather was beautiful and so was Paris! It was hot though and the boys led me on a forced march of 14,000 steps through the streets of Paris.