In three days in Dublin I found myself hanging out in Dalkey two afternoons after sunset. One day I walked from the Radisson Blu St. Helen’s Hotel in Booterstown to Dalkey, but the early 4:11 pm sunset kept me from walking the final mile or so around Sorrento Point to Killiney Beach. The second trip…
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Remote Modoc County, Burning Man, Oldest Petroglyphs, Captain Jack and the Modoc Indian War
This week I have been researching and planning for a road trip in September to Grand Teton, Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks in Wyoming and Montana with travel through northeastern California, eastern Oregon and Idaho. These are rural landscapes in a vast wilderness of mountain ranges, forests, lakes and rivers. Google Maps shows the most…
What a Trip! July 1997 Marching Season Riots Derry, Northern Ireland
Yesterday, August 9, 2013 there were 56 police officers injured in Belfast when over one thousand loyalists protested a republican rally to mark the introduction of internment without trial in 1971 for suspected terrorists in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. In 1997 my travel path intersected with Northern Ireland during the last summer of the…