Our recent trip to the UK took us to Manchester, York and London.  You haven’t really had Thanksgiving until you’ve celebrated it in Manchester, following your turkey and stuffing with some turkey and stuffing flavored potato crisps!

This year we took everyone out to a place owned by Jose Garces, a friend of a friend.  Mercat a la Planxa is one of the best reviewed new restaurants in the US right now, it’s a well deserved honor.  The food was delicous, the drink was never empty and the atmosphere was nearly perfect.

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We spent our Thangsgiving break in North Carolina with the better half’s half of the family. (Read on …)

Four years have passed since we all were here.  It seems that Moab changed a bit more than we did.
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The most prominent feature in Edinburgh is the castle, which sits atop a volcanic core.  The core is all that remains after glaciers stripped away the rest of the mountain.  It’s a naturally fortified position, which made it that much more difficult for the Scots to retake after the English took it over. (Read on …)

We landed in Scotland on Sunday.  Leslie managed to sleep a bit on the plane while I caught up on all the movies I had missed from the last six months.  Having not slept, or not much anyway, we decided to hit the town immediately. (Read on …)

Another dive, another sea turtle. He’s probably thinking something similar about me. I spotted this one near the Playancar Deep reef off the shore of Cozumel, Mexico.

A day or so after Thanksgiving I noticed that Mary decided to make an appearance in the dried water droplets on the faucet of our Chicago rental. You may speculate as to why she chose this location, but I’m certain it was to ensure that my whites were as pearly as the gates.