Blogs from Lockhart, Texas, United States, North America

Geo: 29.8847, -97.6697It's taken a long time to finish up our Camino saga. I wanted to sum up our experience and found that harder to do than I'd thought. So here goes.When we planned this trip, we thought it would be fun to visit another country at the end and fly out of a different city, and we chose Lisbon, Portugal. In retrospect, I'm not sure that was a good idea. When we reached Santiago, we were both ready to go home. But we were flying out of Lisbon and still had 4 days to get there. With the remaining time we decided to see Porto, Fatima and Lisbon, Portugal. Saturday, June 25th, to Porto. Our bus trip from Santiago de Compostela, Spain to Porto, Portugal was pretty uneventful. When we arrived, we managed to figure ... read more

Geo: 29.8847, -97.6697Actually we've been back since late Friday, as those who have suddenly gotten many more emails from us have suspected.The trip back went well. It was a direct flight (10 hours) so no plane changes. Customs was smooth. They didn't even open our bags and the only thing we had to explain to them was about having been on a farm. But when we got to our car it wouldn't start. Hmmmm. Luckily the parking place had a guy whose job it was to help start cars so we were out of there in 15 minutes.It's Wednesday, and we're still jet-lagged. I don't know why it's taking us so long this time. We struggle to stay up past 8 pm!All and all it was a wonderful trip. We wish we'd had more time in ... read more

Geo: 29.8847, -97.6697So, we're going to play a little with a travel blog. Thanks, Don and Mary for the inspiration! We figure it will be good practice for when we do our round-the-world trip when Charlie retires.We promise not to bore you with every single detail, although you may get incredibly bored. In which case, you must really love us to subscribe to this!So, come along with us as we explore Scotland and England. Just 3 more days!... read more

Today I thought it is a good day to explore the area south of Austin and have a look where US-183 will go to. So I'm driving south of Austin today on US-183. While 183 through Austin is a Freeway, which means the street has a median to separate the opposite directions of traffic and no intersections, it becomes a regular highway with mainly two lanes in each direction soon after you leave Austin. But traffic is still astonishingly high. Not that I have to drive bumper-to-bumper but there is still someone ahead or in your rear-view mirror. Along the highway there is open but privat land which seam to belong to farmers but most of it isn't cultivated. Sometimes I see livestock and you can call them happy cows because each of them has probably ... read more