I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want. – Andy Warhol
A wonderful added advantage of selecting camp sites never visited before, is the element of the unknown. Without exception, each one of the four visited thus far has delivered big time in terms of each being very different and unique from the others. There is no one size fits all and the Read on...
Hello friends; geez after almost 2 years of not posting a blog, Im now up to two. Ive gone crazy altogether.
Time is passing by in a nice quiet way here with me working on the business with new ideas, & Ive been touring the condos to see what updates have been done. Lots of changes in 18 months. I met up with our managers to get an understanding of what challenges theyre facing these days & how w Read on...
Het Marne kanaal dat parallel loopt aan de rivier de Marne. Dit kanaal is gegraven omdat de Marne rivier hier vrijwel onbevaarbaar is. Het is 67 km lang en is gebouwd van 1836 tot 1846. The Marne canal that runs parallel to the Marne river. This canal was created because the Marne river is not really navigable here. It is 67 kms long and was built between 1836 and 1846.
A short day today, 18.9 km Read on...
We have still had problems with the heater so decided to skip travels in Utah. Camping in really cold weather without good heat is not an option. Hence, we decided to stay another 2 days in Taos.
I went to the campground office and asked if we could stay another 2 nights. Unfortunately, there were no sites with full wed have to move to another side without a dump. We could do this easily.
The w Read on...
Just to fill your holiday during the stay at home, or rather Ground Hog Day existence we are now living. Some totally useless information that may bring a smile or a snicker. So, lets check into Twinkies, fried chicken, catsup, and apple pie and ice cream. From the NYT: Twinkies as we know them now are simple: yellow cake filled with vanilla cream frosting. But when the sweet snacks first appeared Read on...
As we had hoped the weather has turned out fine this morning and this gave us confidence that a side trip to French Pass would be a worthwhile exercise as we drove to our next stop in Nelson.
With the aim of arriving in Nelson by around 4pm we needed to be on our way from TeMahia by around 9.30am and we managed this successfully.
It didnt seem to take as long to cover the distance back to the hi Read on...
With a final temple tally of 22, this morning it was time to leave Siem Reap. Steves guide book had a list of 12 ‘must see temples and we ticked off all of those. I had a list that someone had put on the internet of their 33 Best Temples and Ruins in Siem Ream. It was never my aim to tick off all 33 sites on that list, it was more of a rough guide just to know what temples were where to keep th Read on...
On our last day in the Outer Banks we stayed around Nags Head. In the morning, we went to the Outlets Nags Head. This is a smaller outlet mall than many, but it had a Carters outlet, a bookstore, a Vera Bradley and a Pepper Palace. Then it was me for serious souvenir shopping at The Farmers Daughter, Forbes and Wings.
Forbes has a plaster statue of the Nag of Nags Head. Nags Head is named after t Read on...
Poet, novelist, and travel writer William Graham holds a BA and MA in English and a MS in Communication from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. He lives in Stowe, Vermont. Many of his books are also available on His latest novel is Portland Noir, the fourth and final installment in his Maine Murder Mysteries series.
It was early: in the morning, dawn on the equator in the country of Read on...
Our guide Craig lives in the idyllic village of Ballachulish and it was above the village that we started our walk today.
We came to the slate quarry - back In 1693 slate was first quarried in the Ballachulish Slate Quarries just a year after the Glencoe massacre that took place nearby. By the early 1700s this had developed into a major slate quarrying operation which continued for over more than Read on...