We’re winding down our 2023 travels and will be back in the USA in early October. That’s nine months of being on the road. We’ve had a tremendous time in Iceland, the UK, and France. Even took a detour into Germany and Switzerland. We will… Read More »Long-term Nomading, Lessons Learned
The cathedral’s full, official name is The Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of St Peter in York. But most people shorten it to York Minster. It’s visible from nearly every place in the old section of York, and I had so many pictures that it needed… Read More »York Minster and St. Mary’s Abbey
Our housesit for June was in Worksop, England. Where’s that? It’s in the Midlands, specifically Nottinghamshire, very near to Sherwood Forest. Yes, that Nottingham and Sherwood Forest, of Robin Hood fame. (More on that in a minute.) We had finished up a wonderful month in… Read More »Worksop, Steam, and Robin Hood
On our way from Cornwall to Worksop, we spent two days exploring the Bletchley Park museum and the Museum of Computing that is basically next door. If you saw the TV series, The Bletchley Circle, or the movie The Imitation Game, you would be familiar… Read More »Codebreaking, Computers, and Bletchley Park
Both Mark and I had been to York on previous trips to the UK, but there is so much to see and do that we wanted to return. York is only an hour and a half from Worksop, so it was an easy drive (on… Read More »A Weekend in York (more really old things)
After leaving the Hadrian’s wall area (https://idealcaretech.com/really-old-things-sheep-and-peacocks/) we headed further into the Lake District. Famous for its lakes, forests, and mountains, the Lake District is also associated with William Wordsworth, Beatrix Potter, and John Ruskin. Carlisle – Castle, Cathedral, and the Cursing Stone Though just… Read More »See the Løveli Lakes
We loved our time in Belize, but it was nice to be back home in Georgia for a while. We got to see friends and family, regroup, and plan for the next trip. While in Belize, we had decided that 2023 we would travel to… Read More »2023-Planning Our Year in the UK &Europe