Friday, June 13, 2014 East Ilsley, UK
Michael Lowrey, the proprietor of the Fox and Hounds, pointed out the stylized Uffington Horse. (Small white spot on hill). It is hard to discern and best when viewed from the air. He has not hiked the Ridgeway and is new to the area, so his directions down from the scarp were misleading. When he…
Thursday June 12, 2014 Uffington, UK
By the time we finished taking buses back to where we finished the hike yesterday, it was almost 11 AM. From the start, we climbed steadily under the shade of overhanging trees. Occasionally we could see the Og valley slowly diminishing as we climbed back up to the Ridgeway. Once on top, we were exposed…
Wednesday, June 11, Ogbourne St. George
Our B&B hostess treated us to a savory vegetarian English breakfast…fuel for the miles to come. Afterwards we visited the Sanctuary, a prehistoric site on Overton Hill. The site consists of six concentric rings of timbers erected around 3000 BC. In 1930, excavators found 162 postholes, some with double posts. It is believed that he…
Tuesday, June 10, 2014 Avebury, UK
We hopped on the train in Portsmouth to Swindon, and the took the number 49 bus to Avebury. As we rode northeast along the coast we saw small hamlets along the bays, the harbors filled with boats and yachts. The cerulean blue sky dotted with white puffy clouds competed with the dark blue sea and…
Monday, June 9, 2014 Cherbourg, FR
There was no breakfast at the hotel this morning, on Monday’s they do not open until 9 am and we had to catch the 8:43 bus. We were not informed about this when we paid in advance, but we were able to get reimbursed. After leaving 12 frantic messages at the bike shop yesterday, we…
Attracting your tribe
This is the first post in the series Developing a Stellar Social Presence: Attract, Bond, and Cater. Most authors whether traditionally or indie published market their books using social media. To do this requires a little effort and simple tactics which you mostly likely already know from daily business and social interactions. Let’s pretend you’re…
Sunday, June 8, 2014 Utah Beach
The little Peugeot. struggled up the hills as we made our way to Utah Beach. At one point the sparrows were flying faster than we were moving. Our top speed going down hill was 35 mph. But the little engine took us about 55 miles round trip, in about 2 hours. It looked so tiny…
June 7, 2014 Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte
Searching for dad We put-puttered north for about 6 miles (10 km) to Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte to see if we could determine the location of the above photos. Dennis’s dad is the upper right man in the top photo and the one standing third from the left and near the blur of the flash in the lower…
Friday, June 6, Sainte-Mère-Église, FR
D-Day +70 years We replaced the bicycles with a motor scooter. We buzzed (like a hive of bees) to Sainte-Mère-Église, travelling only about twice as fast as we did peddling. The highest speed was around 30 mph (50 km). Dennis commented that the motorbike was giving it its all to climb the hills, but so…
Thursday, June 5, 2014 Ravenoville, FR
We rented mountain bikes today to bicycle to Ravenoville, FR about 24 miles (40 km) from La Haye-du-Puits. By the time we got there, I almost in tears because the bike was not fitted for me and caused me pain. We did not know the area and made a few wrong turns, but managed to…