We dumped the car yesterday without incident or fatalities. Phew. Funny thing, though. Now that I’ve driven through Edinburgh, Belfast and Glasgow, I’ve gotten pretty comfortable with the whole world-gone-mad experience of driving over here.
Belfast/Northern Ireland was an unexpected add-on. I was looking at the map trying to find out where to go and what [...]

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I love this city. I’ve never been here before (or even seen pictures) so I didn’t know how cool looking it is with it’s big castle hanging over it.
We got here on the 5th…we being my sister, Tracy, her aforementioned ex-boyfriend, Jon, and my friend, Joe, who flew in fron New York to join up [...]

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Okay…over the years this blog has documented some fairly strange motivations for my travel exploits, but I’m here for the weirdest reason. My sister, Tracy’s ex-boyfriend, Jon’s ex-girlfriend, Melissa, got married to a really nice English guy named David the other day, and since Tracy and Melissa have both adopted Jon’s parents, Mike and Kathy [...]

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