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Iceland Rettsælis (aka Iceland Clockwise), day 3: Whales and the flies begin
Trying to catch one of the items we missed the day before we drove out to see a turf church. It had a cute cat. It was not open, so I don’t have a ton more details. The cat was cute. After that it was on to whale watching! It was cold out, so we…
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Iceland Réttsælis, Day 2: A rock, another rock, and some seals
So, some house keeping to get things started. One, the title of this trip is Iceland Réttsælis which is a reference to the direction we are traveling, ‘rèttsælis’ is clockwise in Icelandic—or so the Googles say, and we are traveling that way from Reykjavik. It is not the typical direction, but we have spent time…
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Iceland Réttsælis: Day 0-1
Not an auspicious start, but after a two hour delay (thanks Delta) we were off. A bumpy, but otherwise uneventful flight. Between sleeping and enjoying Blake’s 7 (as recommend by this post), the flight was over and we were in Iceland. We had like two hours to burn and Jodi had found a travel blog…
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Epic Western Adventure Day 5 (Vermillion Cliffs), 08/19/2020
So, the difference between a National Park and a National Monument appears to be that the latter cannot have paved roads of any sort between it and the public who wishes to visit it. Or, so our experience in Vermillion Cliffs would lead me to believe. After a filling jarring 20 or so miles on…
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Epic Western Adventure Day 4 (North Rim of the Grand Canyon), 08/18/2020
I grew up out west and had never been to the Grand Canyon. I jokingly have called it a big hole in the ground. Yeah, I might need to apologize to the Grand Canyon for that, it is an amazing, beautiful, spectacular, giant hole in the ground. Since, we were in Utah and hitting some…
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Epic Western Adventure Day 3, 08/17/2020
Let me get this out of the way right off about Zion National Park: Zion is pretty, Zion has some amazing hikes, Zion has some of the most interesting highway tunnels I have ever seen. But, in mid-August Zion is hot. No, I mean hot, real hot. 108° degrees hot. Even in a freakin’ desert,…
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Epic Western Trip, Day 2 (08/16 Sunday)
After a less than perfect sleep for me (spoilers, it would take me a couple more nights to sort out how to stuff myself into the bed in some semblance of comfort), we headed out into Bryce Canyon. The plan was to do a hike down into the canyon and then drive out to the…
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Epic Western Trip Day 1 – Travel and Big Bertha
Late the night before Getting an early start on the posts for this trip, especially given that tomorrow, the first real travel day, starts early and could be ‘exciting’. We fly, while wearing our KN95 mask (we have been preparing for this trip for some time now), from Boston, MA to Salt Lake City, UT.…
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Test from iPhone
Traveling soon and just checking to make sure this is all setup correctly.
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Cthugha lives!
I have been a touch distracted and not able to write much since the beginning of 2020 and it has only continued into the Coronavirus-lockdown-hell. In an attempt to recover some sort of focus, I have decided to revive an old software project: CTHUGHA For those of you who don’t have a good memory or…