Butler Family Travels

To be honest, I really don’t want to try to describe it to you.  It is so much like a fairy tale that I think I would spoil it for you and you wouldn’t believe me anyway. The best I can do is to tell you it is like Disneyland, but a real-life size city […]

Happy Easter to all our family and friends!

Wow… our 8 days in Prague flew by. Well, it helps when you sleep through the first. :o) Here’s a couple things that stood out: 1. It was COLD 2. It was fairy tale…ish 3. It was also cold, and beautiful.

We decided not to spend money using cell data on this trip and so have learned something interesting about hardwired/WiFi internet service.  The more modern a country is the more likely it is that we will have all sorts of trouble finding usable internet.  Thailand and Malaysia were fine.  Every little thatched bar on the […]

We’ve had the opportunity to drive a whole quiver of cars that are unavailable to us in the USA.  Some blame it on California, others the evil oil companies and still others those pesky (republicans/democrats).  I just call it  frustrating that we do not have a wide range of diesel powered cars on the market at […]

Gilly is English. Steve is American. They met while studying French during their year of Study-Abroad in France. They now live in Old Basing, just south of London. We know them through the Grunwald Guild in Plain and their son, Aidan, is friends with Levi and Rebekah from the summers he’s spent there. Their gorgeous […]

Who wants a prize from somewhere cool? Where exactly are we? And what the heck are these 3 doing? Basically, who can Google the fastest?  

Vacation from our vacation? Yes, yes it was. Tons of fun. Thank you, Sakakinis!  

Bath is beautiful.  I followed Sarah around all day. The scenery was nice also. They (Rebekah and Sarah) went to charity shops, a fashion museum and then revisited the charity shops again.  Actually, Levi and I didn’t follow to the fashion museum.  We went to a pub to read the paper and have a drink. […]

I am a lifelong fan of the writing of JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis, but these three gems have shaped who I am and my day to day behavior and attitudes more than any other non-inspired writing.  Our first day driving through the English countryside awakened a resolve to reread them as soon as possible.  […]