Aussie visits online bridge partners

Daily Dunklin Democrat

KENNETT, Mo. -- A love of playing bridge has led Australian Roger Lowe on a worldwide adventure.

Lowe was in Kennett recently as part of that journey, visiting one of his online playing partners, Carolyn Workman.

Lowe and his wife, Natalie, were avid bridge players and became devotees of playing bridge on the Internet. Over the years, they became acquainted with bridge players from around the world.

Lowe and his wife had talked about making a world tour one day to meet some of their partners, but his wife died before that could happen. Lowe, however, decided that his wife would have wanted him to still make the trip. Shortly after she died, Lowe began to get serious about his journey.

"I leased my business and sold my home," he said.

Lowe entered the United States on the West Coast and began working his way east, meeting people and playing bridge.

Lowe did not play live bridge while in Kennett but admitted he had been playing on the Internet.

From Kennett, Lowe went to Memphis to work his way across the South and back up to the Northeast before crossing the Atlantic to London.