This will have to be quick. It’s past midnight here in Frankfurt. We’ve seen over eight castles close up and many more from afar. We had some Fiederweissen (fresh grapes, as in this year’s harvest, plus yeast) at a wine museum in Burnkastel-Kues the other day. It was great! We’ve had pork about every night. [...]
Rachel and I went on a canoe trip on the Wisconsin River and traveled to Chicago to the art museum. The canoe trip was about 8 miles and was a day long trip.
After walking around the Art Institute of Chicago for four hours, we sampled some of the “Taste of Chicago” vendors just south of [...]
Tonight, I finished posting the rest of Rachel’s photographs of our honeymoon in Ireland. She picked her favorite three-hundred and I posted them to our online photo album and uploaded the prints to Snapfish. If you don’t have an entire weekend to cycle through the over seven hundred photos in our online album. You can [...]
I have a new favorite store. About a month ago, I started thinking about Ireland in the winter. Maybe this a little overboard for 30-40 degrees Fahrenheit, but I wanted to make sure we had the supplies to stay out in rainy, windy 30-degree-weather for 3 hours straight. We do live in Indiana, however, and [...]
I ran into this page of interesting statues around the world. Most of them are in Europe, hence some of the sexual nature. I really liked the fish in the roof. I don’t care for the comments and the arguements about whether the statues should be in public places–as if you are really going to [...]
There are still 53 countries which drive on the left hand side of the road. The most notable of these being the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and countries on the Indian sub-continent. In addition, many Caribbean islands and African countries such as South Africa, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, to name a few, drive on [...]