Edinburgh Castle
We walked up High Street — which in Edinburgh is a mile of kebab/pizza/fish & chips restaurants, historical markers, and tourist tchotchke shops — to […]
Tourism
Rosslyn Chapel
We trained from Glasgow Queen St. to Ediburgh Waverly (the central station). After checking in to our hotel, we walked north up Bridge St., then […]
Glasgow & Bellshill Walk
Monday was our last day of our first weekend in Glasgow (and environs), before heading to Edinburgh for a few days. We took a hop […]
Historic Railroad Trail
This was hike #96 of the year. Took me awhile to get to the triplog as I was working on several videos. After seeing Terry […]
Valkenburg aan de Geul
I never want to travel anywhere again without doing a hike or walking tour. Partly for working off vacation food, but mostly to see new […]
Valley Forge
Terrain dictates battles. You can’t understand the battle unless you understand the terrain. And you can’t understand the terrain from the comfort of your car. […]
National Mall
The weather went from chilly, but warming, on Saturday, to chilly all day on Sunday, to cold & snowy on Monday — which was, of […]
National Zoo
Our second full day in DC, we planned on visiting the National Zoo with our younger son and his family. We took the 32 bus […]