Click on underlined year or title below to go to the desired travelogue.

2009:

• Atlanta and Augusta for Masters Golf  Tournament

• Gulf Shores, AL and Harvey Trapp's farm in South Mississippi

• Long weekend on Trapp farm in South Mississippi and visit with old friend in Pearl, Ms

• Getaway to Gulf Shores and Trapp Farm in South Mississippi

• Thanksgiving in Gulf Shores, AL and Harvey Trapp's farm in South Mississippi

2008:

• Harvey Trapp’s farm at Newton, MS

• Gulf Shores, AL and Trapp farm in Newton

• Casey  & Caroline Nolan’s home in Arlington, VA, and Fort Belvoir

• Alaska Cruise ship stop at Skagway, AL and train ride in mountains.

2007:

• Pocahontas, AR for wedding
• Jackson, MS to see friend
• Arlington, VA & Washington, DC to see son Casey & Caroline Nolan
• Parrish, FL to see friend & St. Petersburg, FL to see family
• Cruise on Danube River to Nuremburg, Germany (Missing photos)
• 3 trips to Gulf Shores, AL

2006:

• To Gulf Shores, AL two times (Includes photo)

• To Mobile, AL for hospitalization following brain aneurysm

• From Mobile to Memphis by ambulance

 2005:

• Tour of Anne Frank’s home in Amsterdam, Holland (Photos included)
• Driving Through Dixie - Visits to Georgia's Atlanta and Savannah, Virginia's Lynchburg and Appomattox Court House, South Carolina's Charleston and Fort Sumter, and Washington DC's Memorials for 20th Century Wars.

• Hot Springs, AR
• Tubac, AZ, Tucson and Nogales, Mexico
• 4 trips to Gulf Shores, AL
• 7 trips to Old Waverly Golf Club, West Point, MS

 2004:

• Bay Minette, AL & New Orleans

• Philadelphia, MS for funeral of Charles Trapp

• Nashville to lobby for American Cancer Society, Amateur Screenwriters meeting.

• Boston for Casey’s graduation & Nova Scotia (Photos included)

• St. Louis for Cardinals base-ball & Washington, MO

• Tubac & Tucson, AZ & Nogales, Mexico

• New Orleans for cooking school and shopping

• Eleven trips to Old Waverly Golf Club, West Point, MS

• Four trips to Gulf Shores, AL

2003:

• Parrish & St. Petersburg, FL to visit friends and family
• Nashville to represent Schering-Plough, Chamber of Commerce
• Boston & Ireland (Photos missing)
• England’s Bath & London
• Strawberry Plains, MS for hummingbird migration
• Hot Springs, AR for hot baths
• 4 trips to Gulf Shores, AL
• 13 trips to Old Waverly Golf Club, West Point, MS

 2002:

• Dingle, Ireland (Photos missing)
• Augusta, GA for Masters Golf Tournament
• Green Valley & Tubac, AZ & Nogales, Mexico
• Van Buren, AR for train ride in Ozarks
• Boston to visit Cousin Dick and Family for Thanksgiving
• 2 trips to Gulf Shores, AL
• 9 trips to Old Waverly Golf Club, West Point, MS

 2001:

•  Rhone River cruise in France

• Nashville for American Cancer Society meeting

• Scenic drive in northern Arkansas, Mountain View & Harrison

• Gulf Shores, AL  five trips

• Six trips to Old Waverly Golf Club, West Point, MS

2000:

• West Tennessee’s Reelfoot Lake for eagle watching
• Palm Desert, CA to visit Casey
• Cass Lake & Bemidji, MN for family reunion (Add photos)
• Hot Springs, AR
• New Orleans
• Nashville
• Parrish & Tampa, FL to see friends and family
• Santa Barbara, CA to visit Casey
• 5 trips to Gulf Shores, AL
• 8 trips to Old Waverly Golf Club, West Point, MS

1999:

• Atlanta, Vidalia, GA & Florida
• Jackson, MS for wedding
• California & Honolulu, Hawaii (Add Photos)
• St. Louis to hear Billy Graham
• 5 trips to Gulf Shores, AL
• 10 trips to Old Waverly Golf Club, West Point, MS

 1998:

• Pickwick Landing, TN for golf tournament
• Maui, Hawaii (Add Photos)
• Little Rock for airport pick-up of family
• Washington, DC with Chamber of Commerce
• Sardis, MS for golf
• Mountain View, AR for train ride along White River
• New Orleans for teacher conference, cooking class
• 4 trips to Gulf Shores, AL
• 9 trips to Old Waverly Golf Club, West Point, MS

1997:

• New Orleans
• Nashville for NFL game box owners meeting
• Chicago & Detroit for Crime Commission meetings
• Charlottesville, VA for Casey’s college graduation
• Ireland to visit 8 cities and towns (Add photos)
• Sacramento for funeral of Anna Nolan
• Magnolia, McComb & Natchez, MS
• 3 trips to Gulf Shores, AL
• 10 trips to Old Waverly Golf Club, West Point, MS

 1996:

• Madison & Liberty Corner, NJ for Schering-Plough meetings
• Rio Rico, AZ & Nogales, Mexico (Add photos)
• Starkville, MS for Mississippi State Advisory Board meeting
• Cut to pieces at Liberty Corner, NJ corporate meeting
• Essen, Germany for Guardsmark merger meeting
• Atlanta for Summer Olympic Games
• Atlanta for Security Industry trade show
• Jackson, TN for governor’s Task Force on arson
• Knoxville to meet with hospital, TVA officials
• New York for Guardsmark meetings and celebration
• San  Diego to meet with Crime Commission
• New Orleans for great meals
• 3 trips to Gulf Shores, AL
• 6 trips to Old Waverly Golf Club, West Point, MS

 1995:

• Washington to visit Tennessee’s new U.S. Senators
• 2 trips to Washington on behalf of Coppertone SPF ratings
• To New York for ballet, OTC Industry Committee meeting
• To Helena, AR to board and ride U.S. Navy warship
• New York to represent Company at NDMA meeting
• To Liberty Corner, Madison & Kenilworth, NJ for Schering-Plough meetings
• New Orleans to blow off steam
• 7 trips to Nashville for legislative lobbying
• 8 trips to Old Waverly Golf Club, West Point, MS
• 4 trips to Gulf Shores, AL

1994:

• San Diego for whale watching, golf at Torrey Pines
• Cleveland, TN for plant tour & management dinner
• Augusta, GA with Casey for Masters Golf Tournament
• Starkville, MS to meet with MSU Dean, West Point, MS for roast of former boss Bill Sorrels
• Washington, DC for Chamber of Commerce barbeque with politicians  & Charlottesville, VA to visit Casey
• 2 trips to New York for NDMA committee meetings, Broadway plays
• Freeport in Bahamas for sun and golf
• Several West Virginia coal towns for genealogical research (Add photos)
• Starkville, MS for Miss. State Dean’s Advisory Board meeting
• Washington for corporate PAC committee meeting
• New Orleans for fine dining, golf
• 7 trips to Old Waverly Golf Club, West Point, MS
• 3 trips with Betty to Gulf Shores, AL to shop, sun and play golf

 1993:

• New Orleans to see Anne Rice home, play golf
• 2 trips to Washington for Gala Presidential Inaugural, dinner with U.S. Senator, meetings with Senate & House staffers
• 2 trips to Nashville for fund-raisers, receptions, meetings
• Starkville for Miss. State Dean’s Advisory Board meeting
• Tucson and Nogales, Mexico for golf, sun and shopping
• Madison, Kenilworth & Liberty Corner, NJ for Company Grassroots
• Atlanta for tour with Casey of Georgia Tech, golf
• Liberty Corner, NJ & Cleveland, TN for grassroots meetings
• Austin, TX to visit winery, LBJ Library
• Madison, Liberty Corner and Kenilworth to plan political meetings
• Kenilworth, NJ for corporate meeting with stock analysts
• 2 trips to Cleveland, TN to host plant visits by Representatives Sundquist and Duncan
• Washington to host Chamber briefings, corporate barbeque for Hill
• Kaui, Hawaii for vacation (Add Photos)
• New York to plan OTC industry opposition to Congress proposal
• Liberty Corner & Madison, NJ to plan grassroots programs
• LaCrosse, Norwalk & Ridgeville, WI for family reunion
• Drive with Betty and son Casey to Charlottesville, VA to enter UVA
• Hot Springs, AR for hot bath, relaxing walk in woods
• Charlottesville to visit son, Civil War battlefield near Fredericksburg, VA
• New York to shop, see Nutcracker Ballet & attend NDMA meeting
• 5 trips to Old Waverly Golf Club, West Point, MS
• 4 trips to Gulf Shores, AL with Betty to shop, sun and play golf

 

     Lewis and Betty Nolan of Memphis, TN, have long enjoyed travel. During many of his years with Schering-Plough HealthCare Products in Memphis, where he served as Vice President of Communications before his early retirement in 1996, Lewis traveled on business and at company expense a great deal. Betty, recently retired from teaching culinary arts in public high school, continues to be a dedicated gardener. They enjoy visiting noted gardens every where they travel.     

     Lewis kept notes about many of his business trips and their short “getaway” trips. This site recounts their short trips from 1993 through 2009. Getaways 2010 - records their getaways beginning in 2010.

       A sister website, at Nolan Travels,  contains links to travelogues Lewis wrote and pictures (mainly taken by Betty) about their longer trips to Europe, Hawaii, the Caribbean and elsewhere.

     With responsibility for his employer’s government relations, Lewis made frequent trips to Nashville to meet with various Tennessee government officials on behalf of his company and also on behalf of the Memphis business community in his capacity as chairman of the Government Relations Committee for the Memphis Area Chamber of Commerce. He also served for several years on the Boards of Directors and Governors for two statewide business advocacy organizations, the Tennessee Association of Business and the Tennessee Business Roundtable.

     Lewis also frequently traveled to Washington and New Jersey on company business, where he would spend one or more nights each time. He made frequent, all-day trips to West Point, MS, and its Old Waverly Golf Club. The private club is a 300-mile drive from Memphis and is ranked in Golf Digest’s Top 100 Courses in the U.S. In addition, Lewis and Betty usually drove from Memphis to their condo on the beach at Gulf Shores, AL, four times a year, for stays of a week or more at a time.

      In some years he took 30-to-40 trips a year before retiring from Schering-Plough in 1996, accumulating enough “points” for him and Betty to fly for free and stay at greatly reduced rates at prestige hotels. He often made notes of business conducted or golf played, nice restaurants and people visited. Due to the advent of the Internet and his acquisition of computer equipment, he turned his informal notes into brief accounts of “getaway trips” starting with 1993. Previous trips were made in the days before widespread computer use. The frequency of trips dwindled following his retirement and a lengthy recovery from a brain aneurysm in early 2006. Links to the business and pleasure trips for which his notes from 1993-present were made are in the column on the left. Just click on a year to go to the desired travelogue. 

Your comments and /or questions are welcome.

Email Lewis Nolan at

lewis_nolan@yahoo.com