3/24/2010 Our plane landed in Málaga, Spain on March 19, since then we have traveled to Ronda, Cadiz, Tarifa, and Gibraltar and now back to our beginning. Málaga is home to roughly a half-million people, about 100 km (62 mi) east of the Strait of Gibraltar and about...
3/23/2010 The next road from Tarifa, Spain, led to Gibraltar, which is more famously referred to as the Rock of Gibraltar. Did you know it is under British control? One minute you are driving along in Spain and the next, passing through British customs. The history is...
Some days you leave the house for a seemingly normal outing and then WHAM! life confronts you with the profound and wonderful where you least expect it. That’s what happened to us yesterday. We left our temporary bayou home around 9:30 a.m. and drove to the...
On the next road from Washington, D.C., to New Orleans, leading through Montgomery, Alabama, we relived the powerful history that brought us a step closer to a more perfect union. It was a short but impressionable stop in the birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement....
“The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.” Thomas Jefferson It seems a spark has been lit spreading open rebellion against the greed and corruption in the corporate world and its control of the...
Tarifa offers a historical and beautiful setting with Morocco a short 10km across the Strait of Gibraltar, a gateway between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean. Beaches, natural beauty, climate, and location combine to make Tarifa worth seeking out. The wind here is...
The map at left shows the relative location of Cádiz while on the map to the right you can see its unique position on a peninsula with the old city located at the end. Cádiz is said to be the oldest continuously inhabited city in Europe, founded in 1104 B.C. The old...
We arrived in Málaga (Spain) on Friday, March 19, 2010, at around 4pm (local time) after missing our scheduled connection in London the previous morning. Since British Airways made the connection too close and our plane was late leaving Miami, they paid for (2)...
Sometimes we don’t find the next road until the last minute. Like this time. There we were scurrying around like the squirrels in Presque Isle, Michigan, looking for places in Cape Cod, Asheville, Virginia Beach, Charleston, then we discovered an amazing...
After two months in Baltimore, we packed our bags and headed north to Presque Isle, Michigan. Wait, don’t click to Google Maps, just hold up your right hand, palm facing toward you. Presque Isle is at the tip of your index finger approximately 750 miles north of...
