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Welcome to our blog!

Here you can read all about it. Sometimes it's traveling, sometimes it's homeschooling, occasionally we bitch. For some background, read our first post ever.

Thursday
Oct292009

We've Made a Terrible Mistake

We just ate dinner at a Scottish Pizza Hut. The kids loved it -- as any kid anywhere loves any Pizza Hut. I have to go now and find the Tums.

Wednesday
Oct282009

Oban Distillery, Seals, and Narrowly Averted Disaster

Tuesday we woke up, which is generally the best way to start a day, and decided to jump in the car and head to the Highlands. After some quick packing, and some obligatory yelling at the kids. we were out of the flat by noon. We programmed our navigator (we call her Betty) towards the town of Oban and hit the road -- the beautiful, beautiful, winding two lane road to Oban.

We hadn't booked ahead, but the tourist office found a place for us to stay just up the hill. Betty was a little unclear in her directions, and we ended up having to turn our gigantic

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Wednesday
Oct282009

Stick This

What the hell is the point of a stick shift? Seriously. I don't just eat for nourishment -- I enjoy a good meal, but I DO just drive because no one has invented a usable teleportation pod yet. So, why the hell do I wanna work any more than I have to at driving?

I've driven stick (not well) at various points in my life and I've just never embraced the idea. I've heard the, "It puts you more in touch with the road," crap before. We have automatic transmissions now, let's

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Monday
Oct262009

The New iPhone App's Here! The New iPhone App's Here!

We are now contributing bloggers to an iPhone app called Travelholic Confessions. Cool app? We don't know, because we don't have an iPhone! What? You do have an iPhone? Oh - well - go check it out and tell us how it is.

Things are going to start happening to us now!

(For those beloved readers who are a bit internet-challenged: The above exclamation is also a link. Click it. As an aside, ALL red-colored words on our blog are links. If you're just realizing this, please set aside a few hours today, and go back through all the posts, clicking all red links, to see what you've missed.)

 

Saturday
Oct242009

We Have a Photo Gallery

We've been posting photos on Flickr, but we just finished working on our photo gallery right here on our very own website. Check it out, we're kinda' proud of it. The Squarespace gallery interface is pretty slick and looks great, (and the Scottish light we've had lately makes a photographer out of anyone with a camera).