This morning while making final arrangements for travel within the UK next month, I was having trouble visualizing exactly how long it was going to take us to get from point A to point B, and which days we would spend in which areas of Scotland. Without thinking I grabbed a pen to jot […]

fall-line and I will whisked away to London from Seattle where we will briefly explore before taking a fast train to Scotland.I’ve been eagerly awaiting an opportunity to visit the land from which so much of my family history (and hair color) comes from. This year we decided that enough is enough - we’re going!Before buying the tickets this evening I was feeling kind of stressed out about the expense of airfare, hotel, car rental, train tickets, whisky and the like….. Weather that subsidy came in the form of a fully expensed business trip or, as with our recent trip to Russia, we were provided with lodging, food and gifts by family members, it significantly reduced the out of pocket expense.

Youtube amazes me. This summer while we where in Moscow I used our digital camera to capture a short ~40 second clip of a humorous traffic scene (which we actually saw many of.) I didn’t think to much of it until after giving our slide show to a few folks - the video was […]