Be Smart and Change the Plan
When do you change the plans you have made? Or do you? When your gut says to or not even then?
Travel
A Haunting Tour of the USS Bowfin and USS Missouri
I was able to tour the USS Bowfin and USS Missouri back in 2011, well before the c-flu pandemic. Touring both “boats” was an eye-opening and sober experience. USS Arizona Memorial The day we toured the USS Bowfin, we started with the USS Arizona Memorial, the place where the USA officially entered the Pacific Theater …
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Ignored My Own Advice: Urquhart and Eilean Donan Castles
We went for an early morning walk before our drive from Inverness to the Isle of Skye, passing the Urquhart and Eilean Donan Castles. (To read more about our early morning walk, go here.) Isle of Skye was one of THE stops we had planned for the trip. We had even planned to return to …
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Clava Cairns Stone Circles: Fascinating To See?
On our second day in Scotland, we saw the (now) popular Clava Cairns, a Bronze Age feature of stone circles. The stone circles have been made very popular by the Outlander TV series as the circles are apparently the inspiration for Craigh Na Dun. In the series, Craigh Na Dun is how the heroine …
Avoid Going Barefoot In The Outer Banks: Corolla Vacation
Back in 2019, a bunch of friends invited me to join them in Corolla, North Carolina for an Outer Banks vacation. (Of course, I said yes.) Here’s a brief overview of what attractions I saw while down in Outer Banks (or OBX). Getting to the Outer Banks Some of my friends drove down to the …
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