Travel
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Dubrovnik
Mom chose Dubrovnik as a travel destination this summer so we could visit some of the Game of Thrones filming location. Want to know about the Game of Thrones locations? Read about it here. After leaving Rome mom and I landed in Dubrovnik. The airport is quite a ways from the city. There are a number of bus lines that go to Old Town and the Bus Station. The bus dropped everyone near the Ploce Gate of Old Town. Mom and I had a hotel booked just outside the Pile Gate. We walked with our bags through Old Town and down the main street. Mom was able to get her…
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Grand Canyon
Earth is older than humans can really grasp. It has been around for billions of years and will remain for billions more. Throughout time species have come and gone, continents have drifted together and apart, landscapes have changed. Some changes are so small we never notice. Some are so large that they leave something, like the Grand Canyon, behind.
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Mokoro Cruising
Cruising A Mokoro is traditionally a dug-out canoe made from a single tree. The availability of inexpensive alternatives means that most tour companies use boats made from plastic or fibreglass. The boat is not the important part, the adventure we had is. After travelling from Khama Rhino Sanctuary, we were picked up from our hotel early in the morning and were taken to the edge of Maun city where we waited for a motorboat to be ready for us. The boat was to take us up the river to the Mokoro pickup site. The trip upriver was beautiful. So far we had seen dry yellow grasses but near the river,…
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Khama Rhino Sanctuary
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Khama Rhino Sanctuary
We arrived in Johannesburg very early after almost 40 hours of travel. Luckily we were met by our tour guide Stephen, from Expelendor Tours, and his wife Emily. They loaded us up into the van and off we went, to find wild rhino. Our goal for the day was to cross the border into Botswana and reach Khama Rhino Sanctuary where we would have our first game drive to encounter animals before staying on the property for the night. The first animal we ran into were Impala. We soon came to learn that these guys are everywhere. We saw these two, a Tsessebe bull and a female. Finding more antelope,…
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Edinburgh, Scotland
Edinburgh is an amazing city, not only does it have modern significance, as the capital of Scotland and the birthplace of Harry Potter, it also has an amazing history everywhere you turn. It was very different from Glasgow. We got a hop-on hop-off bus pass to limit the amount of walking we were doing. The first place we wanted to go to towers over the city. It’s Edinburgh Castle. The castle has stood since at least the 12th century and is one of the most attacked places in the world. The castle stands tall on Castle Rock and is one end of the Royal Mile. Walking the Royal Mile means…
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Fyvie Castle
hav In my small hometown, many families have distant Scottish ancestry. As far as we know, only one shares their name with a castle. Their name is Fyvie. When they heard that mom was headed to Scotland they told her about this castle they wished to visit because it shares their name, Fyvie Castle. We found it on a map and saw it wasn’t out-of-the-way of our planned route. We decided to stop, take some pictures, and get something branded from the gift shop for them. Early in the morning, we left Inverness headed for Aberdeen. You turn off the highway and follow what I would call a one-lane, two-way…
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Inverness
hav We finally arrived in Inverness in the early evening. Most of our day was driving from Glasgow, exploring the various Lochs, villages, and sites along the way. We didn’t have as much time as we wanted in town. There had been may extra stops on the drive up. We used all of our time to go out and explore the city. There were many walking streets and that made it easy to explore. Inverness has its own castle. The castle overlooks the river and is home to the Sheriff’s Court. Inverness has many churches, such as the Ness Bank Church with a recently installed statue out front and the…
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Loching Around Scotland
We left Grandma visiting friends in Glasgow. The rest of us travelled Northwest to reach the Highlands. We stopped in the village of Luss, to explore and make our way to the shore of Loch Lomond. It is one of the largest lochs in the United Kingdom. Luss The village of Luss was quaint. The houses looked like they were taken from a storybook. The people we passed were friendly and informative. Even the notices posted around town had a friendly feel. Loch Lomond Loch Lomond is large and seems to go on and on when you look left or right. There is a dock built for boats to moar…
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