In late January of 2026 Sarah, Darian, Ryan, and I took a trip up to Napa. Ryan was in town on business so we decided to make a weekend of it. We opted for a wine tour with Platypus Tours (your guess is as good as mine 🤷♂️) and stayed Read more
For a month each spring, The Living Desert gets taken over by thousands of glowing sculptures. It’s an event called Wild Glow and believe it or not, it changes every year. Each sculpture is made of what appears to be a welded wire mesh with a sort of translucent fabric Read more
The place we stayed the night before, in Doolin, was unremarkable so I’m not going to bother wish photos. However they did have a map for guests to pin their homelands. I somehow managed to cram one into the already over-marked southern tip of CA. There was also a group Read more
This stop was a bit of an odd one. It was part historical site (the castle and some remaining structures) and part faux town of yesteryear. To their credit, it was sometimes hard to tell which parts were original structures and which parts were fake. At one point we wandered Read more
This drive, pronounced like “sleigh”, was similar to The Ring of Kerry which you’ll remember from Killarney a few posts back. The Ring of Kerry seems to get top billing on the Island but everyone with whom we spoke said Slea was better and we agreed. We had originally planned Read more
The Ring of Kerry is a drive similar to that of Maui’s Road to Hana. We chose to drive it ourselves, which started out as a great idea and ended up as a bad one after Google sent us down a “two way road” roughly wide enough for a portly Read more
Sarah and I have been to a bunch of foreign countries together; Italy, Croatia, and Iceland… come to think of it we seem to favor countries that start with I. Anyhow, on the morning of the 16th Sarah and I went our separate ways for the first time ever which Read more
The big attraction here is the Ring of Kerry, which will be the topic of the next post. This is just going to be a quick look at the town and the place we stayed. Loch Lein Country House The Loch Lein Country House had a hell of a view Read more
We were here for quite a while and so I’m going to break this into two different galleries. Blarney Castle is what you think… it’s the famous place where idiots wait in line to hang upside down from the top of the castle to kiss a stone… a stone which Read more
Despite what you might think, Glendalough is not a witch. It’s a settlement from the 6th century and also one of many cemeteries we saw in Ireland. It featured all kinds a headstones that appeared to barely be holding back zombies, what was left of a church, a bell tower Read more