Ryan and Debi & Toren

Category: travel

  • England Trip – Day 7

    We were surprised at how many things we had been able to fit in at this point.  If you’ve been reading these posts chronologically, you’ll know that we skipped two attractions for various reasons.  This was our make up day.  We started out with a visit to Abbey Road, the recording studio made famous by…

  • England Trip – Day 6

    I drug Steve out to do a little more Sociology-related fieldwork during this day in London – we made the obligatory pilgrimage to the burial place of Karl Marx, Toren’s namesake, at Highgate Cemetery.  Unknown to me before we arrived, there are a number of other famous people buried in the cemetery, including: Douglas Adams…

  • England Trip – Day 5

    Given that this was a work trip, we started the day out properly – we went to a church service so I could do a bit of ethnographic field work.  I had big plans for visiting a variety of different churches to get a sense of the variety within the Church of England.  But what…

  • England Trip – Day 4

    With just a couple days to see London, Steve and I tried to pack a lot in. So, even though we were up late (until about 2:00 am as I didn’t get to London until pretty late), we got up fairly early. We followed a self-guided walking tour I found here to see the London…

  • England Trip – Day 3

    This was the day of the conference.  The conference was the inaugural conference of the Non-Religion and Secularity Research Network, an organization primarily made up of scholars interested in the non-religious.  The organizers of the conference were kind enough to invite me to give one of three keynote presentations.  The other two keynote speakers, David…

  • England Trip – day 2

    I arrived at Gatwick airport around 8:00 am, relatively unrested (thanks to my talkative neighbor).  I quickly made my way through customs, picked up my bag, exchanged some currency, then found the stop for the direct bus to Oxford.  I missed a bus by about 15 minutes, which meant I had to wait another 45…

  • England Trip – Day 1

    While I wasn’t particularly excited to leave for the UK on my birthday, in a sense it was kind of a nice birthday present, so I didn’t really mind.  I arrived at the airport a couple hours before my flight, checked in fine, and headed to the terminal from where my US Airways flight to…

  • Eugenie vs. the birds

    During our visit to Fort de Soto, my Mom decided she had to chase down the birds lounging on the beach:

  • Fort de Soto pictures #8

    One last photo from Fort de Soto. Toren was being pretty good and was very cute when we put him into his own chair:

  • Fort de Soto pictures #7

    My Mom snapped a few pictures of the three of us walking up and down the beach: