Travel Adventures

Hello againToday we are in Belfast. We took a taxi tour of the city. We went to a Protestant neighborhood the Peace Wall and a Catholic neighborhood. While we were in the Protestant neighborhood we saw several murals. They were really cool. One mural had a picture of a man in a ski mask holding a gun. The cool part was that the gun pointed at you no matter where you were. That was my favorite p

HelloToday we left Derry and headed for Belfast. We made a few stops on the way. The first stop was at Dunluce Castle. The Castle was pretty cool. It didn39t take long to go through it. My favorite part was the prison like room. That was pretty cool. It was a small round room. We also got to go under the castle. That was neat. After Dunlice Castle we headed to Giants Causeway. That was fun W

Hello again Today we left our hostel in Donegal and came to Derry or Londonderry. On the ride to Derry I had an interesting conversation with Claire and Alicia. I learn a lot when I talk to Claire. We always have interesting conversations. Once we got here we met up with our tour guide Adrian at our Bed and Breakfast. He took us on a buswalking tour of the city of Derry. He did a wonderful job

HelloToday we left Sligo and headed for Donegal. When we got to Donegal we had a walking tour. We learned about the history of the town. That was pretty interesting. It was a fairly small town. The tour did not take long. We saw a couple of churches a castle and an old school. The school had one class downstairs and the teacher lived upstairs. When the tour was over we went to the castle and lo

Day two headed out of town with Abdul Driver and Abdul Guide we found the Chinese. Like Bole a massive modern city is in the making. Guangzhou has moved in pouring huge amounts of money into apartments industry businesses etc and it was mentioned as in Bole 80of every train in is Han Chinese who arrive here and seemingly disappear to their new city ghettos so to speak.Every time we drove d

Last year I spent a week in the Gobi Desert of Inner Mongolia China and I met quite a few Chinese tourists who showed me pictures of a place in Gansu Province where mountains were a palette of warm colors. This place was Danxia 45 km from Zhangye and I knew it would be on my bike route for 2013.So here is Dan Xia Geopark. It is a unique place and I spent the whole day with my mouth wide open d

April 18 April 25thThe Langtang TrekIn a departure from my usual day by day trek blog I39ve condensed this entire trek to a summary style entry It was taking me so long to get the story out. Anyway I hope it is still enjoyable to read. There are still lots of photos they39re hard to cull down 145 for this blog post. So without further ado.....Trekking beginsTrek 3 was a 9 day 8 ni

Missouri tucked in her shirt tied her shoelaces and wore her prettiest hat for us today under blue nonhumid skies. We changed plans and decided to try route 76 west today with no destination in mind. We continued to ride through Mark Twain39s forest and then mostly countryside on this quiet two lane road. The road was fantastic and several times we were able to reenact the Ikea commerc

Early start up at 0600 as we are going to Cochrane for 5k run and Duathalon On the road by 0640 stopped for muffins and coffee at the local breakfast bar At Cochrane we met Shelly Ben Eric Age 8 and Matthew Age 10Carl and Colleen39s daughter husband and family. Matthew and Ben were entered in the 5k race. Melody was entered in the duathalon ruuning 6k cycling 37k the running 10k.

Continuing our journey up the Blue Ridge Parkway we39ve been driving North about 40 miles a day and hikingcamping along the way. We39re in Lynchburg VA at the moment...not sure how the town got its name but im watching my neck. Rainy morning and it looks like it will continue to be a rainy day. Our hope was to explore and hike another section today but its 11am and we39re hanging out i