Home of My Ancestors

This is more of the area around Brecon Beacons National Park. My mom's ancestors (on her dad's side) came from this general area--Glamorganshire, Wales. We couldn't locate the exact town on any maps, but this is the general area. What a neat coincidence--because we didn't realize that this was my ancestral homeland when we booked our horseback riding adventure! (No Brian, my ancestors did not come from the Yellow River Valley!)

A Wale of an Adventure

October 11th 2006
This week will just be pictures. Gretchen and I just got back from a couple of days in Wales, and I just don't have much time to write a blog entry. I have a final exam tomorrow for one of my classes, and we leave at some ridiculously early time in the morning on Friday for our trip to Austria and Italy. But I think there are something like 50+ pictures that I've decided to insert into this ent ... read more

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