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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
We saw the International Space Stations (ISS) as we drove from Houston to Austin Monday evening (10/16/17) at about 7:50pm looking at the NW horizon. At first we saw lots of planes and stars...
About a 45 minute drive from where we are in Tomball north toward Montgomery is the Saint Francis Wolf Sanctuary. We did not know about it at all until this past Saturday when they...
