Ruminations

We rose fairly early this morning to get a good start on our trip to Dartmoor, a wonderful 365 square mile national park near Exeter. As we drove into the moor, we were struck with the beauty of the place — the hedgerows gave way to stone fences, sheep littered the verdant fields (and the [...]

Today is the day that travel ate. After yesterday’s hard-charging schedule, we took a while to wake up, cook up some quesadillas with the tortillas we’d been surprised to find in the cabinet, and loiter around the house for a bit. While Kathy, Lana, and Meara went to get some genuine English fish & chips [...]

I’ll replace this with a more complete update once I work out some technical issues. Here, however, is the short version:
Today we were tourists, saw the Tower of London, rode the Double Decker Bus and the Underground, and generally wore ourselves out. Two of our three bags have now arrived, so I’ve just had my [...]

Today we traveled from San Antonio to London by way of Atlanta. This was the first time several of the kids had been on a plane, so the fear and nerves quickly gave way to novel excitement, which kept the young ones entertained for the first leg of our flight. The trip to Atlanta took [...]

We’re engulfed in a pile of stressful last minute stuff as we finalize our preparations to leave for England this Saturday. Most interesting bits:

We still don’t have Abigail’s passport. The Passport Agency said that Kathy hadn’t signed one of the documents, but didn’t bother to tell us until several days after everybody else’s passports had [...]