Nata Harli – The Accidental TouristaIt is a country where there is not enough water to drown a man, wood enough to hang one, nor earth enough to bury him… The words of the Cromwellian general Edmund Ludlow, describing the area known as the Burren, are well known in Ireland. What is less well known is that he went on [...]
Sunday, October 10 – Galway & Limerick On Sunday, I caught a bus into Galway with the intention of walking around and exploring more of the sights. But, I didn’t realize it was Sunday and got to the main part of town a bout 10am and everything was still closed. I did manage to find [...]
This is a picture I took of the inside of the train from Dublin to Galway. It’s a really great way to travel. I imagine it will turn out to be totally the opposite of my flight to Germany on Ryan Air. From what Karen tells me it’s like a cattle call but it’s only [...]
Yesterday I hopped a train in Dublin and a couple of hours later I was on the other side of the country in Galway. Cross country in 2 hours – I guess the trains here travel pretty fast! I’m staying at the Acorn House B&B a little outside of Galway. I hopped a bus to [...]
Another beautiful day in Dublin. I’ve discovered the rumors of constant rain in Ireland are put out by the residents of Ireland to discourage travellers from coming to Ireland, much to the dismay of the tourist bureau. However, from the amount of tourists who are here in October I’d say the tourist bureau is winning [...]
A pretty uneventful flight from KC to Chicago to Dublin. The gentleman sitting next to me was from Dublin and had just finished up a visit with his son who went to Baker University on a “football” scholarship. His son is now living in Lawrence and working with the KU soccer team and hoping to [...]
Today, as I write this, I find out one of the pitfalls of not taking better notes while travelling. I know I rode from Great Falls, MT, to Hinckley, MN, in 2 days. I remember that on July 22nd I rode 653 miles so I have to go to Google Maps and try and figure [...]
Today is going to be a very short day and then tomorrow will be a very long day. It’s less than 200 miles to Great Falls, MT, and I’m not sure why I picked it to stay in tonight other than I like the name, “Great Falls”. Allan and I said our goodbyes after breakfast [...]
This will end up being my 2nd “kinda/sorta” bad day of the trip. By the end of today I will vow never again to visit a national park unless there’s about 10 feet of snow on the ground and I can be absolutely sure there is not another living human in the whole place. But [...]
Well, let’s see how this works. This blog is now supposed to be linked to my FaceBook account so when I post here it will automatically post to my FB page. Joseph was another slice of heaven on earth that I have been constantly discovering on this trip. We woke up to another absolutely gorgeous [...]
