We've been in Edinburgh since Thursday and it's great here. The Georgian architecture and amazing history has been very impressive. After sleeping for two hours in an airport lounge, we spent most of the morning catching up on sleep in the hostel lounge. There we also met a great girl named Emily who is doing a mirror image of our trip, except she's traveling alone. So we picked her up and have been hanging out ever since. For the latter part of Thursday, we...

No this accompanying photo is not my own. But we did pass the Ben Nevis Range on our way to Lochness up in Fort Augustus, Scotland. We bit the bullet and signed up for a 'Wild and Sexy Scotland' tour put on by Haggis Adventures. With our new friend Emily, we piled into a big tour bus and drove for hours up to check out Lochness and the place of the infamous creature, Nessie. Loch we found out is lake in Gaelic. I was amazed at how large and never ending ...

We made it to the quaint town of Salisbury today and took in all the greatness of Stonehenge. All guidebooks say its pretty uninspiring, but as you cal tell from our photos, we were pretty inspired! Really though, I didn't get goosebumps from some eery spirits still hanging around the temple. But I was impressed with the perserverance required to watch sun patterns for years and then spend the time to drag tons of huge rock to a vast open field and set them up t...

We're alive and walking our socks off in London! After a two hour flight delay leaving Portland, we ran through two terminals in Chicago and stepped through the ticket line with chests burning and wonderment that we actually made the connection. Since we stepped off the plane at 12 noon London time, we've been walking around the National Gallery, Tralfagar Square, rode the London Eye, took numerous pictures of two decker buses, big ben, westminster abbey, and...