Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
Sometimes, when you find yourself in a resort town during a very slow season, you have to poke around a little. I did. I treated myself to a little photo walk through Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin during one of those dreary days between color season and the holidays. Due both to the time of year and [...]
I'm wrapping up my series of posts about our family trip to Ireland with Dublin, the last chapter of an epic adventure. Our stops along the Wild Atlantic Way exhilarated all of our senses. I will, for instance, always remember the bowl of mint pea soup I ate at an unassuming roadside tavern overlooking both [...]
The jaunting carts drew us to the Black Valley of Ireland, mainly because we're a literal family and "jaunting" sounded so cheerful and fun. So, we committed to one of the oldest tours in Ireland, the Gap of Dunloe Adventure tour, which involved an open boat ride across the Lakes of Killarney and a horse-drawn [...]
We each stuffed two euro into an honor box outside a sheep farm, and made our way up Carhoo Hill. None of us, not even the two people who had planned this excursion, had any idea what waited for us at the top. Wind whipped our hair as we hiked switchbacks passed an insultingly unimpressed [...]
I attended every Zoom meeting we had to plan our family’s trip to Ireland, but I really just nodded and smiled a lot. As I mentioned, I never thought the trip was actually going to happen. I just thought it was fun to dream with the fam and I enjoyed watching the travel experts in [...]