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It was well over a decade ago when I packed all my worldly possessions in my Geo Prizm and a minivan and my Dad and I made the cross-country trek from Michigan to a foreign land called California. To a bona fide Midwesterner, it felt like falling off the edge of the earth. Which, incidentally,…
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It was our last day in Ireland. We would be spending most of it driving back to Dublin, where we were planning to stay with the same friends that we met for the first time when we arrived. We had a lot of things to talk about and savor, and since we are both big…
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We left early enough for our hike to the stone circles that even with the unexpected extension we still had plenty of daylight left. We decided that we would drive to the end of the peninsula and take the cable car to Dorsey Island. But first, there were important things to attend to, such as…
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After a peaceful night’s sleep, entirely free of nightmares about Devil’s Ladder, I awoke to a lovely day for a hike. That was a very good thing, since we intended to do just exactly that. This was the day we were going to do the Cashelkeetly hike, which would take us to some of the…
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The B&B we were staying at was a bit more formal, and we all ate breakfast at the same time. That was fun because after the first day of being there, we had some stories to share. Joanna and I refrained from embellishing our cliff walking adventures too much, but I will admit that we…