We were on our way to Kathmandu Nepal in 2022 with Carl in tow. Our first flight was nearly 15 hours from Seattle to Doha, Qatar, and we had a nine-hour layover. Doha has one of the finest airports in the world at present, but after such a long trip, we wanted to stretch our…
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Belize 2023 🎣
Our friend and Cobb neighbor, John Siegler, is an avid fly fisherman. We met in the basement storage area when I spied about 100 fly rods in his locker. I was digging through my climbing gear, and he spied about a dozen ice axes, crampons, backpacks, ropes, etc. He said I guess we both have…
Ron’s Gastropub ✿
Carter and I have been staying a night in Amsterdam on some of our European trips. We once missed a connection at Schipol due to a baggage handling strike in Florence, so to avoid this we stay at the airport and venture into town. One one visit we discovered Ron’s Gastrobub, a Michelin starred steak…
Harry’s Piccolo ✿✿
Harry’s Piccolo is a two-starred restaurant in Trieste, Italy. Carter and I arrived a couple of days early for our YPO 2024 Supercar trip, touring the Grand Lakes of Northern Italy. Part of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire, Trieste was the only seaport with access to the former empire. It’s known as a key trade port…
Ireland 2024 🍀
Dublin Dublin was our first thematic international trip for the Hadlands and Morgans to celebrate Carter’s and Mitch’s birthdays. Carter’s birthday is March 15th, and Mitch’s is the 19th – so Dublin for Saint Patrick’s day was a perfect day and place to celebrate. The crew for this trip would be me, Carter, Rhone, Jim,…
Rock of Cashel, Cork, and The Blarney Stone ☘️
The Rock of Cashel Set on a dramatic outcrop of limestone in the Golden Vale, The Rock of Cashel, iconic in its historic significance, possesses the most impressive cluster of medieval buildings in Ireland. Among the monuments to be found there is a round tower, a high cross, a Romanesque chapel, a Gothic cathedral, an…
Giant’s Causeway 🍀
The Giant’s Causeway was the third main leg of our Ireland 2023 Road Tour. I have read about this place many times, and it has been featured in the video game Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. I really wanted to visit this place. I am an Eagle Scout, a nature lover, and a rock nerd. I love…
Restaurant Patrick Guilbaud ✿✿
During our Ireland 2023 trip, the Hadlands and Morgans planned it around Carter’s and Mitch’s birthdays. For Carter’s birthday dinner, he chose Restaurant Patrick Guilbaud, a two-Michelin-starred restaurant in Dublin’s city center, located beside the 5-star Merrion Hotel. The cuisine is contemporary Irish with French classical roots, and it is acclaimed both nationally and internationally….
Beef Wellington 🥩
We all know that my mother, aka MamaT, loves Beef Wellington. Apparently, so does my friend and neighbor, Paul Ellington. One night in April, I was persuaded to prepare another Wellington. I should call it Paul Wellington, or Beef Ellington, or Beef Paul 😂. ️ Now, Paul is a fine cook in his own right….
Sequim Dungeness Bay 🦀
My good friend Ric Merrifield often invites me to Sequim to go crab hunting from his beach house. Here we don’t use pots. We walk to the low tide, and wade in the eel grass to hunt the crab with our bare hands. I love the views from his deck. In the early AM, when…