A Tale of two Scottish Clans My mother was Scottish and could trace her ancestry back to the Campbells of Breadalbane. If I recall correctly it was her grandmother’s grandmother who was the daughter of the Earl of Campbell (so 5 or 6 generations back). I, of course, grew up […]
We had learned about this monument when researching our trip. When we realized they were located in the town of Falkirk, which was just 12 miles outside of Edinburgh, our first place to visit in Scotland, we of course, had to go and see them. They are called “The Kelpies”. […]
We went to Montana mainly to see the Glacier National Park (see this post), but were not prepared for the other amazingly beautiful attractions that state has to offer. One of the biggest surprises (and delight) was the Makoshika State Park – which we stumbled upon by accident. We were […]
When visiting Canyonlands National Park in Utah we stopped at a turnout that had a view of the canyons below. What blew us away was the dirt road we could see snaking around to the bottom. We just had to find out what that was and if we could drive […]
In preparing for our trip to Maui, we kept reading about “the road to Hana”… Never much about Hana, but always about the road that leads to this little, isolated, town on the East side of Maui. We now know why and, no, we actually never made it to Hana. […]
I’d heard that there were a lot of beaches on Maui, but I was not really prepared for what we encountered. There are literally beaches everywhere! Small ones, large ones, wide open ones, intimate ones, straight ones, crescent-shaped ones, you name it, it is there. Many of them are open […]
The Corona Virus pandemic is still on so we can’t travel, right? One would normally be correct in that assumption, but the state of Hawaii, which thrives on tourism, decided to set up some strict rules that, when abided by, would allow visitors in. We started to think about Hawaii […]
We take a trip, through the clouds, to the top of Maui’s volcano, Haleakala.
Everyone knows about the casinos that have made Las Vegas famous. These casinos blast their presence in the form of neon signs, the larger and the more impressive, the better. With new development projects and expansions down the Strip, older casinos are regularly torn down to make place for newer […]
Now and again you hear of people giving up everything and going into the desert to go “live off the grid”. I always wondered “where” that is and how they do that, but never really bothered to research it. I will admit that I had imagined, naively I should say, […]