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Scotland 2013: Highlands sights day 2

Scotland 2013: Highlands sights day 2

Sunday morning we enjoyed a leisurely breakfast at our B&B, then drove to the parking area for Bracklinn Falls on the outskirts of Callander. The area was quite lush with moss and other plants...

Scotland 2013: Highlands sights day 1

Scotland 2013: Highlands sights day 1

Bidding goodbye to the buses of Edinburgh, we picked up our rental car at the airport, then drove to the Falkirk Wheel. This engineering feat is a boat lift to connect the upper canal to the lower...

Asia/Australia 2013: Great Ocean Road parks

Asia/Australia 2013: Great Ocean Road parks

Though we spent a considerable portion of our time driving along the coast there were several inland parks that we stopped at as well. On day one we headed inland from Lorne in search of several...

Asheville 2012: views

Asheville 2012: views

Last weekend we packed up the Vue, put Riesling in the back seat, and drove out to Asheville to enjoy some hiking amongst the fall color. We hit six waterfalls between Dupont Forest, Pisgah Forest...

British Columbia 2012: waterfall hiking

British Columbia 2012: waterfall hiking

In addition to the waterfalls in Strathcona Park we visited several other waterfals on our Vancouver trip. Our mileage varied... Ammonite Falls We had some time between the ferry arrival and showing...

Revamped waterfall page

This past weekend we made some long-needed updates to our waterfall site. We've got a better google map listing most of the falls we've visited, several errors/bugs were fixed, and we added new...

A weekend around Lake Tahoe

A weekend around Lake Tahoe

In mid-October I spent 10 days at a conference in Davis, CA. With a free weekend I drove out to explore South Lake Tahoe, and wow, was I impressed at the landscape. Over several hikes I saw nine...

waterfalls in western Washington

After the long Wallace Falls hike, we continued down Highway 2 and did some shorter hikes (read: downhill scrambles) to several other roadside falls along Deception Creek and the Tye River. A few of...

Wallace Falls State Park

After a hearty breakfast at the Original Pancake House in Kirkland on Saturday morning, our first stop was the longest hike of the day—5.5 miles RT for four waterfalls at Wallace Falls State Park....

waterfalls in western NC

It's always nice to be able to get away to the NC (or VA) mountains for at least one weekend in the fall. Although the first day was very sunny - great for hiking but not so good for waterfall...

waterfalls in Yosemite National Park

The first official waterfall close-up on the trip was Bridal Veil Falls. It's more or less a roadside view, so get there early to get a parking spot and share the short hike with lots of other park...

West Virginia waterfalls, day 2

We were able to get an early start out of Beckley and headed east on I-64 to the Sandstone area for our first two falls of the day. Brooks Falls was rather underwhelming, but Sandstone Falls (below)...

West Virginia waterfalls, day 1

Ever since we bought this book a few years ago, we have been planning to head up to West Virginia to seek out some waterfalls. Back in early May, we had the perfect combination of cool weather and...

Our Itinerary

2024 Trips

San Diego, CA (Jan)
Sarasota, FL (Feb)
Valencia, Spain (Mar)
Mallorca (Apr)
Croatia (May)
Faroe Islands (Aug)
London, UK (Sept)
Bari, Italy (Sept)
Rome, Italy (Oct)
Frankfurt, Germany (Oct)

2022 Trips

Florida (Feb)
NC Mountains (Apr)
Washington DC (Apr)
Valencia, Spain (May)
Hilton Head, SC (May)
Pacific NW (Jun)
Long Island (Jul)
Florida (Sept)
Chicago (Sept)
Poland (Sept)
NC Mountains (Nov)
Euro Xmas Markets (Dec)