So You Want to Be A Photographer?
You just bought a fancy camera as well as a nice lens for it, and now you are a photographer, right? Sorry, but no. It takes more than just having the camera to be a photographer, just as it takes more than making a couple…
Searching for The Best Steak in Dublin
Since moving to Ireland I have been in search of the best steak in Dublin, which unfortunately is hard to do. They have great quality meat but most chefs and cooks don’t know how to prepare it. Most of the time it is overcooked, dry,…
A Sad Day for America
Growing up in Spokane a conservative part of Washington State my political views leaned towards the conservative side of the spectrum. In defense of that statement, during my lifetime the Republicans in office weren’t that bad. Sure, one was a bit of an idiot, but…
Scotland The Final Drink Count
I’ll skip over days nine and ten as they were spent those days relaxing around the hotel, seeing a few sites, and getting messages and sleeping in. The whiskey trip as a whole was a success in the achieved goal of visiting numerous Scottish distilleries,…
Scotland Distillery Tour Day 8: Dalwhinnie and DoubleTree
On the way to what would be our final hotel for the trip, and as we worked our way back to the real world, we stopped at Dalwhinnie, which is one of the highest distilleries in Scotland but more importantly, they do whiskey tastings which…
Scotland Distillery Tour: Dufftown
It wasn’t intentional but we managed to time our whiskey trip to land at the same time as the whiskey festival in a small town called Dufftown. This elicited a few jokes from me as I imitated Duffman while visiting Dufftown and driving past the…
Scotland Distillery Tour: Speyside Whiskey Stops
It was a busy day of distillery stops with the first one right down the street from the hotel. Well, it would have been if we had gone in the right direction from the hotel instead of the wrong one. But once it was sorted…
Scotland Distillery Tour Day 5: Loch Ness
The great weather held out as we moved north stopping at a couple more distilleries along the way, and a visit at the famous Loch Ness. A massive lake and cute little town called Fort Augustus just to the south of it. The towns only…
Scotland Distillery Tour: Sheep and The Ferry To The Highlands
An early rise for breakfast as we headed off for what would be a nearly 4hr ferry ride to the mainland. The B&B as B&Bs go was a very nice place and we couldn’t dispute the tranquil nature of it with the sheep outside the…
Scotland Distillery Tour: Islay Distilleries
With so many distillaries on the island we didn’t have time to visit all of them. But, we did manage to visit quit a few distillaries on Islay. Caol Ila Roll down the road to what looks like a scenic little village then around a…
