I had one main goal for my US trip – you know, other than see family, go shopping, and eat my favorite foods. It was to go swimming. I don’t know where I thought I’d go, but I had grand hopes of finding a pool somewhere and just floating. I was definitely a sea animal in a [...]
A few weekends ago, Thomas and I went to Champagne, France. It wasn’t the typical trip to Champagne, filled with fancy hotels and fizzy drinks, but instead, we were there to do some bird-watching. Just outside of Champagne, in an area called Chantecoq, there are some lakes (Lac du Der and Lac d’Orient) where cranes [...]
Two weekends ago, Thomas and I went birdwatching in Champagne (blog post coming soon). Although we saw many birds on our trip, we spotted them through our scope, further than we could capture with our cameras. The next weekend, though, we guaranteed ourselves some bird photo-ops at Parc Paradisio outside of Mons. Our buddies, Reid [...]
It may sound kind of weird, but the most romantic trips for Thomas and me seem to be birding road trips. They follow our moto, “it’s for the journey, not the destination.” We usually have no idea where we’re going or what we’re going to find, but it always ends up an adventure. We went [...]
Last week, Thomas and I rode out to the coast to visit the Het Zwin Birding Reserve. Thomas was on call – not only on Easter weekend, but also our wedding anniversary. That’s what you get when you’re the new guy… Unfortunately, he was paged and he had to spend half of the time there [...]
