Go ArnoldsI can trace the origins of this RV trip to 20 years ago when my dad, diving deeper into to his new genealogy hobby, obtained a copy of the will of our earliest known ancestor, Anthony Arnold, written in 1689. He asked if I could clean it up to make it suitable for framing. Unfortunately, it was a scan of a […]
A curious detail about our camping spot in Estes Park, CO is the colony of critters and their vast underground network of tunnels interspersed throughout the campground. My daughters affectionately referred to these things as “Timmies” (?) but they are actually Wyoming ground squirrels. Our hiking destination for Monday morning was Gem Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park. […]
As a testament to the inexorable march of time, June 2021 marks the 10 year anniversary of the start of our family’s epic travels, the first two years of which we lived full time in an RV. What better way to mark this occasion than with another RV trip! Before leaving town 10 years ago, […]
Our fourth and final week would be a partial one, but there was plenty to pack in before we called this trip complete. On Saturday, the rest of the fam went to scope out London, but Natalie and I went to the Harry Potter Warner Brothers Studio Tour. At $89 a ticket, I was grateful […]
We spent the first few days of this week in Falkirk Scotland. I understand Falkirk is not a small town, but the view from our Airbnb sure felt that way: Scotland seems to obsess over their recycling, so much so that they only collect trash once a month. There are four different ways to sort rubbish and I […]
Before leaving Bristol last Friday, we had to try making “cream teas.” This ill-named treat is not tea at all, but rather jam and clotted cream on scones. The order of jam and cream differs according to locale: the enlighten Cornwall-ians first spread on the jam and then add the creme, while the troglodytes over in Dover go with cream first, then jam. […]
Back in December 2016, Amy and our middle daughter Emily began making plans for our Summer 2017 travels, with the main criteria being that we go overseas. Thanks to Scott’s Cheap Flights, they discovered round trip flights to London for less than half of last year’s Hawaii flights, so we all agreed this was the place […]
I proudly enter this video made by my oldest daughter Carrie into the official Arnold travel record:
We packed a lot in this last week, so settle in for a long read… The weather in Hawaii continues to beguile me, most recently with episodes of simultaneous rain and sunshine. But I suppose it’s the healthy doses of both that make it so lush here. We started our final week in Hawaii with the much-anticipated […]
We kicked off our second week on the big island of Hawaii with a trip to Waipi’o Valley on Tuesday. (This was the day I learned to recalibrate my perception of the weather. While it rains a lot here, we’ve not had any true “rainy days” — only rainy hours.) I was initially disappointed with the cloud cover that completely […]