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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...