Ireland/UK Day 13 July 3, 2023 14 miles hiked Breakfast is yogurt and porridge in the restaurant. I stay there writing for a while (just like the PCT, it’s really hard to stay on top of this… but worth it) and finally go back to the room, pack up, and help Mom work out her …
Ireland/UK Day 12 July 2, 2023 15.4 miles hiked Despite feeling like absolute death last night, I feel pretty good this morning—after stretching anyway. I guess this achilles thing is just going to be for life. I need to make sure I do better with doing all of my stretches every single day, before and …
Ireland/UK Day 11 July 1, 2023 19.3 miles hiked I’m out of practice with getting ready for a long hiking day. I fumble around with the coffee maker, pack some things, forget some other things I was going to pack, have to repack, mess up the Nespresso somehow, the simplest coffee maker ever, have to …
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Friday, June 30, 2023 How is it already the last day of June? I don’t know where time goes and why it still surprises me that it goes there. Today’s a travel day. We wake up with the alarms and pack up our stuff in the Dublin apartment. It was really nice to stay in …
Thursday, June 29, 2023 Today is our last day in Dublin, and it’s a full and joyous one. We start off a the Little Museum of Dublin, which is just down the street and on the other side of St. Stephen’s Green. We’re a bit too late for the 10:00 tour so we go next …
Wednesday, June 28, 2023 *Note: This post contains a lot of historical and political information that was told to us directly by a person with a clear bias. I fact-checked afterwards with research of my own, but it's still likely that I got things wrong. If you're an expert in this area and have a …
Continue reading Ireland and UK Day 8: Belfast and the Giant’s Causeway
Tuesday, June 27, 2023 Mom goes out for a walk this morning for a few hours. I drink a couple of slow coffees, write, and mess around on the internet, and am reminded of zero days on trail. I didn’t often succeed in getting up before my tramily on these days, but there were a …
Monday, June 26, 2023 This morning is luxurious because I have instant coffee in the room, and I can actually drink it and become human before we leave. Once we do leave, we take the bus towards the center of town and gather with a large group of tourists, largely American, and wait for our …
Sunday, June 25, 2023 Bye, cute Airbnb! We’re exhausted after our big Aran Islands and Cliffs of Moher tour yesterday, but we manage to get ourselves up at a decent time. We pack up, enjoy another delicious breakfast prepared by Ronnie (but I opt for tea instead of coffee this time), and set out for …
Saturday, June 24, 2023 This post is a bit of a novel. Feel free to pour yourself a nice cup of tea or a fizzy water, or heck, even a Guinness, and take your time with it. Settle in. We’ll be here for a while. I’m groggy when my alarm goes off because I stayed …
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