rock climbing>hiking>log cabin
>I top rope climbed a 35 ft. rock! We drove down this backwood, potholed, dirt road then hiked a big hill to this sweet wall, anchored in, and climbed a few ...
Category: TRAVEL
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Expeditionary visit with mom
>1) We went to the Tulluride by the Sea film festival at thein Portsmouth. Neat old theater. We saw Coco Avant Chanel, a very good indep. French film starrin...
Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park
>A fellow Aggie-Coast Guard wife-temp. Mainer and I drove to Bar Harbor (adorable) and Acadia (wowingly georgeous) for a day trip. Acadia is where those ninc...
Nubble Lighthouse
>Earlier today, when I was “returning” from York School Dept, I accidentally turned north instead of south. oops. I figured this out when i saw N...
Gate D49 to Hispaniola
>We didn’t really do a whole lot of expewhateveryoucallthems. We mostly lounged around the resort and stared at each other. haha. Chris said he didn...
Here to there to the other there
I tallied things up on the plane. I have been on 9 airplane-involving trips in the past 8 months: NYC third date-Dec/Jan Proposal in ME-Feb CO ski trip-March ho...
Motorcycle trip winds down
and down and down and down and then back up and up and up and up the Bear Tooth Highway. This road was ridiculous! We zigzagged like 4-5 laps up the side of the...
Motorcycling Post-Canada
>This morning, we drove through Glacier Natl Park of the U.S. So I got to compare ours to Canada’s. haha. as for number and size of glaciers, Canada wi...
Motorcycling in CANADA
> We crossed the border into Oliver Valley, British Columbia. A sign said that the valley is “the wine capital of Canada.” It went on for miles a...
From Above
Flying to Oregon, we flew over the Great Salt Lake and the salt flats. It was one of the funniest looking things I have ever seen. I wrote that “The water...
Panarama from a motorcycle
Motorcycling through Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, Alberta, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas. Riding on a motorcycle is a ...
Salem means Peace.
>heading back from Boston, I drove through good ole Salem, Mass. There, I dropped by the House Seven Gables (Hawthorne novel) among other things and statues....
Carter’s visit
>My 16-yr-old brother left today.Day one in Boston was the the most adventurous. We wondered around the historic district and into the oldest restaurant in A...
Ascent of Mt. Morgan and Mt. Percival
>Oh Oh! We went hiking with our new friends Mark and Lindsey the on Saturday! We made a 5.5 mile loop to one summit, across a ridge, and down from the other ...
Portland for the Day
>The sky in Portland, ME in gray. Well, just because it was gray yesterday doesn’t mean it is grey all the time, right? Actually, Lindsey Allen said it...
Yesterday Boston. Tomorrow Portland.
>Boston is an hour south of Kittery. Chris and I spent the whole day there yesterday We parked for free at the coast guard base (now doesn’t that work ...
hiking in the white mountains
>I hiked Mt Major with my new friend, Meghan this past weekend. I was pretty proud of my physical aptitude. I made it to the top of the (1,786 feet) mountain...
Little Trip
>Chris had a portcall in Virginia last weekend so he flew me up. In the meantime, my students watched The Hunt for Red October- excellent movie- Sir. Sean Co...
>Welcome to Scotland. We stole the tune to their national anthem. “my country tis of the…LET FREEDOM RING.” Theirs say’s “GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.”
>10 hour bus ride. We stopped in Haworth, England, where the Bronte sisters grew up on the way up. (authors of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights). The town was...
The Tower of London and a bit on Democrats
>I was in London the second time yesterday. We went to the Tower of London first. The white tower in the middle was the palace before Hampton Court before Bu...
Monks in a Pub
>After that, we ran down to Piccadilly Circus at night time- that was pretty. It is like New York’s Time Square but not quite. Fancy bright lights and ...
THE TEXAS EMBASSY!
>So England was the only country in the world to recognize Texas as a country back when we were independent. So there was a Texas Embassy in London. Now, it ...
My favorite stained glass window ever
I was reading in a chapel of Michaelhouse in Cambridge, England and the sun was pouring perfectly directly through a big stained glass window with assorted craz...
John’s Class Notes from Professor C.S. Lewis
I wrote before about John, the adorable elderly man from my Bible study group whom I bring Latin notes to because he loves translating it with me and he was on ...
I’m the Spiderman Punter
>We went punting today! The river is pretty shallow near town so instead of gondolas, Cambridge has punts. About 6 people can ride in each long flat boat and...
Shakespeare in the college gardens
>We just went to see Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew” in St. John’s College garden. Okay so that was amazing! (Kiss Me Kate an...
Lances and Steering Wheels and the Sherriff of Cambridge
> Drivers drive on the Left side of the road in UK, Australia, and Japan. FUN FACT: The reason is that when knights jousted, they held the lance in the right...
Tree Climbing, Building Scaling, and a Rowing Tournament!
>The other night about four of us illegally played in some flat boats on the river. oops. No, they were tied to the dock- we didn’t do anything that ba...
Ultimate Frisbee and a Red Double Decker Bus
>Yesterday I played Ultimate Frisbee on Jesus Greene. This town was basically built on an island in the middle of a swamp and the town expanded before they f...
More London
>The Globe at night time. So I have a thing for Big Ben- I really like it. People say it’s under-rated but I beg to differ. When I look at it, I think ...