After four relaxing days spent in Wales, we hit the road again, this time for the Pennines and Bronte country. We had debated at length during planning about trying to stay in Liverpool for one or two nights, but ultimately the cost of accommodations kept us from doing that. Liverpool also ended up being one of [...]
Europe 2015: Wales
I wish I had saved some of the email and text exchanges I had with Kathleen during the final stages of planning this trip. I had narrowed down BnB options and was running them by her so she could have the final say, but most of her replies consisted of: "Wales? Why?" She wasn't being [...]
Europe 2015: England (Southwest and West Midlands)
Our trip continued from Iceland to England on 03 June, with a comparatively short flight from Reykjavik to London Heathrow. We had purposefully booked a late flight, having planned to do the Blue Lagoon in the first half of the day, but that plan backfired spectacularly. At least we had our first glance of London and [...]
Europe 2015: Iceland
Last Christmas, my sister asked me if I would be interested in accompanying her and our mother on a 60-day trip to Europe as part of her big graduation celebration. The planning began in mid-January, and I ended up being the primary researcher as Kathleen was busy with her last semester in college. She had several [...]
Rustic X Console TV Stand
Today, we went from this: To this: It's the Rustic X Console table (again from Ana White) which I had found over a year ago and shoved in Justin's face, saying "I want this for a TV stand." That was when he started pricing power tools and buying them for me. Yes, over a year of [...]