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So, Plan B
Jun. 17th, 2009 09:44 pmDue to physical limitations found in members of the expedition, trekking for several days on The Ridgeway has been scrapped. Instead we took an extra day in Shropshire playing in Chester and are now safely ensconced in Wales. Currently writing from an undisclosed location in Conwy; had a lovely day playing in the castle and wandering about the Victorian seaside resort/Bronze Age copper mine of Llandudno.
With glorious strength in my Strong Arm, I will defeat Welsh Rail and bus services to go hike a bit of Offa's Dyke from Knighton tomorrow. Failing this, a loud delclaration that, "I am not a number, I am a free man!" may have to happen in Portmeiron.
Reminder to self and extra credit to all you following along at home courtesy of my visit to Coalbrookdale (there is dale with a brook that had coal in it; it is practically Icelandic in its uncreative descriptive accuracy): find out more about the "British Coal Tar" patent remedies that were sold in America prior to the Pennsylvania oil strikes. My former history of science and technology professor has a bottle of "Conestoga" (as in the wagon popular for the Oregon trail) brand British tar reclaimed from settler site in the American West. He also has a Darby cast iron mercury bottle, which is just awesome...if slightly scary...in his office at Keele.
Also, Roman ruins in Chester = impressive. I very much enjoyed walking the perimeter of the old wall. Did the same of the Conwy medeival wall as well, probably about three laps around town all told. Old Longshanks certainly had a grand time letting Wales know they were English.
With glorious strength in my Strong Arm, I will defeat Welsh Rail and bus services to go hike a bit of Offa's Dyke from Knighton tomorrow. Failing this, a loud delclaration that, "I am not a number, I am a free man!" may have to happen in Portmeiron.
Reminder to self and extra credit to all you following along at home courtesy of my visit to Coalbrookdale (there is dale with a brook that had coal in it; it is practically Icelandic in its uncreative descriptive accuracy): find out more about the "British Coal Tar" patent remedies that were sold in America prior to the Pennsylvania oil strikes. My former history of science and technology professor has a bottle of "Conestoga" (as in the wagon popular for the Oregon trail) brand British tar reclaimed from settler site in the American West. He also has a Darby cast iron mercury bottle, which is just awesome...if slightly scary...in his office at Keele.
Also, Roman ruins in Chester = impressive. I very much enjoyed walking the perimeter of the old wall. Did the same of the Conwy medeival wall as well, probably about three laps around town all told. Old Longshanks certainly had a grand time letting Wales know they were English.
