Ryan and Debi & Toren

Author: rcragun

  • Scotland Adventure – Day 5 – Loch Ness and Stirling Castle

    I woke early in the middle of nowhere and headed out.  I wanted to stop by Loch Ness just to say I had.  Turns out, there isn’t a great place to just stop and say you saw Nessie.  Oh, and Loch Ness is freaking enormous (it’s a lake)!  I did see a Loch Ness exhibit…

  • Scotland Adventure – Day 4 – Castles

    So, after all my whining about my heels, how bad were they, really?  Glad you asked: Really, they did hurt. Anyway, with my hiking complete, it was off to visit some castles.  I had originally only planned to visit one castle, Stirling Castle, one of the more famous castles in Scotland.  But with an extra…

  • Scotland Adventure – Day 3 – Cuillin Hills

    My colleague who recommended that I go hiking in Scotland recommended that I go to the Cuillin Hills.  These “hills” are widely regarded as the most rugged terrain in all of Scotland and are located on the Isle of Skye.  Considering that they are only about 3,000 feet in elevation, I didn’t believe they could…

  • United Kingdom – Ben Nevis

    After the prior day’s travails, I slept in pretty late for me – 9:00 am.  I was debating whether or not I should hike Ben Nevis, the tallest mountain in the UK, given the poor condition of my heels, but this was the primary mountain I came to climb. Physically, I wasn’t sore from the…

  • Scotland Adventure – Day 1 – the Pap of Glencoe

    I spent July 3rd through the 6th in London at an academic conference.  With my airfare covered by my university, and having made two prior trips to England for conferences, I thought it might be fun to extend this trip by a few days to see more of the United Kingdom.  I asked Debi if…

  • Audobon Zoo videos

    Here are a few video clips from our trip to the Audobon Zoo.  First up, a tiny baby turtle climbing on to a log: Next, a “kid trap” that Toren successfully navigated: And last, a clip of Toren listening to different bird calls:

  • Toren at the beach in Sandestin

    We didn’t spend much time at the beach in Sandestin, but Toren loved it.  He took off and didn’t want to leave:

  • toddler running

    I love watching Toren run.  It’s adorable.  Here’s a clip of him running on a sidewalk in Sandestin:

  • give me floaties and I shall be free!

    We bought floaties for Toren a while ago, but he has only recently started using them.  And now that he understand what that do, he’s content to hang out in the pool by himself.  Here he is at our pool in San Destin swimming the length of the pool:

  • Chopsticks?

    Nah!  I have fingers! Some clips of Toren eating rice at PF Changs in San Destin on our New Orleans trip: