A few days at Highclere Castle
As part of our 30 year anniversary tour we spent two nights and most of three days at the London Lodge at Highclere Castle, the setting for the show Downton Abbey. When we weren’t...
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A Visit to Notre-Dame Just Before the Fire
We didn’t intend to visit Notre-Dame during our 30th anniversary tour trip. We’d been there many times before, and had planned to take the train to Reims that morning (Saturday, April 6, 2019) to...
Highclere Castle – London Lodge
There are two places that can be reserved to stay on the grounds of Highclere Castle – the Grotto, which sleeps 4 or 5, and the London Lodge which is built for two. For...
Anniversary Trip Itinerary Part 1: Paris, Highclere Castle, Ireland, Northern Ireland
Anniversary Trip 1 (April 2019) – Paris, Highclere Castle, Ireland, Northern Ireland Trip itinerary as part of our 30th anniversary celebration including places visited, articles already posted, articles in process. Just for reference. TRAVEL...
TSHA Annual Meeting 2019
The 123rd annual meeting of the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) was held in Corpus Christi from February 28 – March 2, 2019. I’ve previously attended parts of several annual meetings, but this is...
SXSW 2019 Day 2 – This is Why We Like It
SXSW is diverse. An attendee can fill their brain to capacity by choosing diverse sessions, and let your mind work to connect the dots. I attended five sessions/movies today, March 9, 2019. By far...
book notes – Failure Is Not An Option by Gene Kranz
For about four years (before I was in kindergarten until the 2nd grade) my family and I lived in Indian Harbor Beach, Florida, which is just a few miles from Cape Kennedy. The first...
concert notes: Steven Wilson – The Ritz, Ybor City, FL, December 13, 2018
Steven Wilson is an artist so prolific his discography (put together by a German fan, downloadable here) is over 500 pages long. Between his solo music, Porcupine Tree, No-Man, Blackfield, I.E.M., Bass Communion and...
Last Day Hike 2018 – Pedernales Falls State Park
What did you do to celebrate New Year’s Eve 2018? My lovely wife found a hike for us to do: the “last day hike 2018″ at Pedernales Falls State Park. It was a 2.5...
Po.et on Mainnet – Testing po.et beta plug-in
Some of you may have noticed the po.et badge on my blogs posts; if all goes well with the beta testing described in this post, you can scroll down to the bottom to see...