Glendalough gets its name from the Irish language. Gleann dá locha literally means the ‘Glen of the two lakes’.
Category: Flashback Friday
Hitching Across Canada – Black Flies, Freezing Weather, and Near Death Experience
Hitching in Canada is safe but you run the risk of being left out in the prairie for a cold cold night.
The Fez Medina in Morocco #flashbackfriday
From 2009 to 2013, Morocco was home for me. While I didn’t live in Fez for all of my time in Morocco (only about six months) it was the closest city to the town of Sefrou, where I lived the rest of the time I was there. Fez was where I found expat friends, a…
#FlashbackFriday #vanlife on Oahu in 2004
This is the story of me living in a van on Oahu in 2004. You can read a bit about it in a letter I wrote to the Honolulu Advertiser at the time – Down and Out on the Island of Oahu A bit of context here so that my Hawaii timeline makes sense. I…
I was a Homeless Guy in China – Flashback Friday
Back in 2000, just when the dot-com crash was happening – I quit my job at a company called Tech Planet, bought a VW van for $150, moved out of my house, and decided to write a book about how to live without being a wage slave. Eventually, that book turned into Rough Living: Tips…
Lanai- The Pineapple Island
Lanai is owned by Larry Ellison, the founder of Oracle Corporation. The people who live there are not owned by him. The last time I was there was in 2008. It was a short trip – mainly because I couldn’t afford to stay any longer. Lanai has two expensive resorts and the Lanai City Hotel…
A Christmas Trip to the Big Island of Hawaii – Flashback Friday
Last year (2017) I took my family to the Big Island of Hawaii for a Christmas holiday. I’d been to the Big Island several times before – the first time back in 2002 and then again in 2006 and last year for work and an earlier trip to explore the possibility of buying some land…
Sailing on a Yacht in the Greek Aegean – Flashback Friday
The only thing better than having a yacht…is having a friend with a yacht. In 2011 and 2012 – I was fortunate to sail with my friend Graham on his yacht Jouster for a couple of really great voyages through the Gulf of Volos and into some of the Greek Aegean islands. As a little…
Flashback Friday: Hawaii Hikers – Oahu Hiking Videos from the Early 2000s
These are a real flashback to the past. One of the best things about these videos is the ever changing shape of my facial hair. The other thing that might be confusing is that when these were made, I was in college and just about everyone called me Chris. I was the President of the…
Flashback Friday: The Majesty and Magic of Mauna Kea on The Big Island of Hawai’i
I suppose I should give a bit of a personal history for the rest of this story to make sense. Here it is in brief – in 2017, I moved my family to Hawai’i. We sold our antique store and little community paper on the Oregon Coast and I came here, found a job, and…