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...
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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...
Viewing the International Space Station
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...
Saint Francis Wolf Sanctuary
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...
McKinney Falls State Park
McKinney Falls State Park is about 6 miles from downtown Austin and 3 miles from my son’s apartment. We hiked there on a sunny September Sunday. (For links to our other State Park hikes,...
Hiking in Huntsville State Park
Huntsville State Park is a little over an hour north of Houston, just west of I-45 and a bit south of the city of Huntsville. It was a blue-sky day, semi-low humidity so we...
Brazos Bend State Park
Brazos Bend State Park is an hour drive south of us, and since we are northwest of Houston, it is a lot closer to most Houstonians. We had not been since the kids were...
Quebec City app/enhanced eBook now available for free in the Apple App Store
Quebec City, the app/enhanced eBook I wrote and developed for my gorgeous wife’s birthday (as that’s where we went to explore and celebrate) is now available in the Apple App Store for free…at least...