JanieM Just when I was grappling with a mild crisis of confidence after my Mendocino trip, summer arrived in Maine. The least visually interesting of the seasons IMHO, it’s the time of year when another winter has come and gone, the weather is balmy, and the grass and foliage have settled into a steady green …
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On The Road – Litlebritdifrnt – Gretna Green
Litlebritdifrnt The drive from Loch Ness home is a rather long one so we decided to stop overnight in Gretna Green. It is the last town in Scotland, or coming from England the first town in Scotland. This became significant when in 1753 the new Marriage Act prevented couples under the age of 21 from …
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On The Road – Litlebritdifrnt – Loch Ness
Litlebritdifrnt The drive from Edinburgh to Loch Ness is utterly spectacular. You go from the Lowlands of Edinburgh into the Highlands (for those interested mainly up the A9). We stayed at the Highland Club, a wonderful former Monastery on the edge of the Loch in the Village of Fort Augustus, which is full of pubs, …
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On The Road – Litlebritdifrnt – Scotland
Litlebritdifrnt As you know my husband is American so we do not do foreign holidays because there is so much of the UK that he has not seen. One of our pilgrimages is to Edinburgh for the Festival and specifically The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo. This year we combined that trip with a trip to …
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On The Road – Albatrossity – Chasing Summer into Fall in Flyover Country – 4
It’s Albatrossity Monday! Get some good rest on Monday because on Tuesday we are headed to Scotland for 3 days with Litlebritdifrnt, and then on Friday we get into the weeds with JanieM to round out the week. Albatrossity Continuing with our twin themes for this series – Migration, and Molt. The two most fascinating …
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On The Road – way2blue – TSAVO NAT’L PARKS, KENYA IN JULY [8 of 8]
way2blue [Last OTR submission of a 10-day trek along the Tsavo & Galana Rivers in southern Kenya. Whew.] We began to feel the influence of the Indian Ocean in the change of vegetation during the final days of our walking safari. The mornig after we finished our last walk, we drove to Malindi. Driving out, …
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On The Road – way2blue – TSAVO NAT’L PARKS, KENYA IN JULY [7 of 8]
way2blue [Another OTR submission of a 10-day trek along the Tsavo & Galana Rivers in southern Kenya.] Our final camp under palm trees was one that was reserved for the safari outfit. Very windy. Various predators would come around each of the camps during the night. So when a fellow hiker asked the chances of …
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