Sunday: Day trip to Harpers Ferry West Virginia which is the very tip of WV and where the Shenandoah River and Potomac So you can see and be in all 3 states at once and be in all 3 within a few minutes. They are all river crossings so I suppose you could padding out into the water and do a 4 corners type thing too. Unfortunately the weather was not the best. Any by not the best I mean it down pour Read on...
Breakfast today was very ordinary at the hotel with the options very limited, but no real drama as I was not really hungry anyway so I just had the cream cheese on some stale bread and a raspberry yoghurt.
The drive to Manhattan looked pretty clear of traffic and was scheduled to take us a tick under 2 hours being a Saturday on the road) and we went via the Parkway which was a lovely drive throug Read on...
San Augustine was founded by Thomas McFarland in 1832 and was named after Presidio de San Agustin de Ahumada. It is located on the El Camino Real (Old San Antonio Road) that was started in 1691. In 1717 a Spanish mission was established by Father Antonio Margil de Jesus, after he established the mission in Nacogdoches in 1716. The mission in San Augustine was abandoned in 1719, and did not lead to Read on...
This morning, at 9:30 AM and 83 degrees (and it seemed like 100% humidity), we put Satellite Beach in our rear view mirror and headed for the panhandle of Florida. For anyone who has made this trip, you know well that it is less than interesting and largely boring. We crossed the state to and drove up to and west to Panama City Beach. We had expected to hit a lot of rain, remnants of Nicholas, b Read on...
Well day 2 and 3 of being in Europe was firstly in the fantastic site in the Netherlands that I spoke about last time and now we are in Germany. Mind you it appears from the site we were in first we could have walked into Germany which would have been an experience that we could say we walked from the Netherlands to Germany, ha ha it sounds good and do not have to say it was less than a mile.
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Wednesday July 6 – Success on the sleep front last night. My room is right next to the staff work room and they start early. Every morning at 6am I hear them raking the sand outside my door. This morning I think I heard a door close at 4:30am, so I took that opportunity to put in ear plugs and that blocked the other noise and I was able to sleep until 7am. This is the secret! Not ear plugs at ni Read on...
Seventeen hours on a coach is no ones idea of a good time, but if anything could be worth such an extended period of purgatory it would surely be the chance to indulge in a few days of leisurely sailing through a tropical archipelago. And having spent the previous two weeks giving both my upper body (on my Noosa River kayak trip) and then my lower body (on the Cooloola Great Walk) a workout, I fig Read on...
After the storm of last night Week 13 started up with a whimper and not a bang. It is the start of another week of lock down. Foggy. Foggy in June - never been heard of before . When I started walking way back in March I felt full of enthusiam . New places to see . New things to find . Gradually I ticked the boxes off . I walked looking into gardens . Ticked off the Spring flowers . Spring flowers Read on...
We are still technically in a pandemic. You would never really know this in Vegas. No one was following the rule. Masks were being worn by basically everyone everywhere but many people werent covering their noses with their masks (even waitresses). Saturday, when the young crowd was here, masks were optional outside everywhere it seemed. They didnt care. There were some crowded places at times Read on...
Vandaag met zuiderse temperaturen (tot 31°C) Denemarken binnen gereden. We kozen na 380km voor Romo, een Waddeneiland, verbonden met een kms lange toegangsweg over een aangelegde dijk. Onze toonde aan de ingang al een plaatje. Voll Besetzt. Toch kregen we van de uitbaatster een voorlopig plaatsje met een uitgerolde stroomkabel op een ruim stuk gazon, tot er morgen reguliere plaatsen vrij komen. Read on...