Muir Woods National Monument
Muir Woods, home to the coastal redwoods (the “tallest of all living things”) is just north of San Francisco, across the Golden Gate bridge and near Sausalito. Earlier this year, the park implemented a...
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Bonaventure Cemetery – Savannah, Georgia
Bonaventure Cemetery is a ten minute drive or ride from the Savannah Historic District. The carved gravestones, sculptures and preponderance of Spanish Moss give this place a classic cemetery look. The cemetery is open...
Iceland – Vestmannaeyjar (Western Islands), Heimaey and Eldheimar Museum
The day after our visit to Jökulsárlón, our main goal for our penultimate day in Iceland was to get over to Vestmannaeyjar and visit the Eldheimar Museum. Vik Vik is a very small town...
Iceland – Jökulsárlón (Glacier Lake)
We awoke determined to get to Jökulsárlón, the Glacier lake in southeast Iceland near Vatnajökull National Park and back to our guesthouse. Our Golden Circle guide Olaf had convinced me it was reachable, and with the...
Iceland – Bobby Fischer
As we were starting our journey to Iceland, my lovely wife and I were in an Uber, leaving RWDevCon in Alexandria, VA and heading to Dulles Airport for our flight to Reykjavik. The driver...
Iceland – Snæfellsnes Peninsula, Vatnshellir Cave and the hunt for Jules Verne
Monday night at the Buubble was awesome. The place we stayed at on Snæfellsnes Peninsula Tuesday night, though it didn’t have a transparent roof, was almost as good. It had a black church and a...
Iceland – The Golden Circle
Our tour of the Golden Circle in Iceland was included in our stay at the Buubble. Our tour guide Olaf picked us up from our hotel (the very cool Canopy in Reykjavik) in a...
Iceland – The Buubble
My lovely wife finds the most interesting places to stay. Some of them remain on the bucket list, and some of these adventures have already been experienced. We’ll add staying at The Buubble in...
Austin paint park – the Hope Outdoor Gallery
Our son turned us on to this massive, ever-changing paint park at 11th and Baylor near downtown Austin, Texas called the Hope Outdoor Gallery (website). Their website says this started in March 2011. There’s...
Austin fireworks downtown – New Year’s Eve 2017
The Austin fireworks downtown launched from Auditorium Shores off Lady Bird Lake started early, around 10pm, perhaps because the front was coming in and it was getting below freezing quickly…and it was snowing and/or...