And then you die? Did you see the recent stories and pictures of climbers stuck in a human traffic jam trying to get to the top of Mount Everest? I saw them while on my recent trip to Scotland and England. At least 11 people died attempting to scale Earth’s...
The more they stay the same: Palestine Our intrepid Gang of Seven tourists is now down in Bath, England. But I’m still catching up on our trip through the narrow byways of Scotland. There, forbidding, windswept peaks rise out of gorse covered moors that plunge...
A sentimental journey home! Cruise the blogosphere for for any length of time and, count on it, you’ll come across a bunch of sites devoted to travel. Love Travelling. Dan Flying Solo. A Broken Backpack. The Path Less Pedaled. Nowhere. The list goes on and...
Against machine guns and poison gas After dinner here in Oban, our gang walked back to our B&B along the water front, past a small, grassy square. There were about 20 men and women with bag pipes and drums, playing, marching and rehearsing for what, I assumed was...
The Lord still inhabits the praises of his people Last winter my sister, Linda, and her husband came to Colorado for a visit. Don’t ask me how, but they managed to wedge it in amongst all their other globe girdling trips. As I’ve said of them before,...