Day 4: Llangollen to Trefonen
Monday, October 5th, 2015 Breakfast at 7am and Mike took me to my starting point for my walk. Well, actually, on my request he took me about 2km further, to where the Path left the road. I figured with the…
Day 3: Clwyd Gate to Llangollen
Saturday, October 3rd, 2015 As expected sleeping above a pub would be, last night’s rest wasn’t as sound(proof) as the previous nights. The Druid Inn quieted down around 10:30pm but then some guests of the Inn, who, I think, had…
Day 2: Bodfari to Clwyd Gate
Friday, October 2nd, 2015 I slept really well that night. I woke up at 3:15am, but mind you, I went to bed at 7:50pm so that was already more than 7hours. Bit too early to get up, so turned around…
Day 1: Prestatyn to Bodfari
Thursday, October 1st I slept quite well and woke up around 5am. At 7am I went for a look in the breakfast room where Swan spotted me and made me porridge (on my request). After saying my good-byes I was…
Prestatyn – Starting point for Offa’s Dyke North to South
Wednesday, September 30th, 2015 And so The Walk (take 2) begins. I arrived at Prestatyn train station right on time at 16:23, after a surprisingly smooth trip all the way from Gent. Several trains were involved: Gent to Brussel-Zuid, Eurostar…
Austin, TX
Had a wonderful long weekend in Austin to help celebrate Anjou and Neil’s wedding. Flew out Thursday and landed in the late afternoon just in time to enjoy an early meal and drink at Eddie V’s. Later in the evening,…
Offa’s Dyke – Here I Come Again!
In 2004 I did Offa’s Dyke, or at least part of it. It was the first time I’d ever embarked on a long distance hike, solo or otherwise. I have since come to love these experiences and I am also…
Caroline’s European Summer Trip 2015
On Sunday, August 2nd it was packing time again as the next day I left for my summer trip to Europe. London – 4-6 August First stop was London where I arrived on the morning of the 4th after a sleepless flight…
Mt Baker with Friends
Joined Darrin, Lisa and Jeff for a 4 day ice-climb of Mt Baker’s North Ridge. Had a wonderful time and reached the summit.
Mt Shasta with Friends
A quick trip up the I5 to climb Mt Shasta with Darrin and Lisa. The weather was not kind to us and we did not even attempt the summit. Instead we did a little skills training. Great weekend nonetheless.
And this concludes this Overland Travel adventure
About 20 years ago we started dreaming of this trip and now, incredibly, we have completed it, and are back home. The ‘back home’ part still feels a bit surreal every now and then. No more planning of the next…
Sterlin finally made it home
Monday, December 22, 2014 Thanks to gps tracking we spotted Sterlin’s cruise ship, ‘Hapag-Lloyd Seoul Express’ in the Bay just across from Pier 32. Sterlin was in one of the smaller containers at the front of the ship. Thursday, January…
Waiting for Sterlin
Saturday, December 13, 2014 We are still waiting for Sterlin to arrive back home. Not only has his ship been delayed with a few weeks (tell me something new); there also seems to be some ‘actions’ from the stevedores (really…
Homeward Bound!
It had arrived: the last day of our ‘Around The World Trip’. That evening we boarded a plane in Ho Chi Minh / Saigon that took us back home to San Francisco. Bittersweet really. On the one hand we felt sad…
Problems with Sterlin
This is a blog post about the things that have not quite gone right with our Sterlin. We have completed 55,000 kms (35,000 miles) over some pretty unforgiving terrain. We have had only one major failure but did have lots…