Blogging A – Z Challenge 2023 – The Haps With Herb

After Action Review Plus Memes

May 2, 2023 Herb 21

Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 23073 – 1121 Here’s the haps: I feel pleased with myself about having completed the Blogging A – Z Challenge this year, especially since I picked the theme and stuck to it. There were a couple of posts where I Continue Reading[...]

Zealand, Denmark on the Blogging A – Z Challenge

April 30, 2023 Herb 18

Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 23071 – 1119 Here’s the haps: So as I came to the end of this series I felt some relief but I knew I wasn’t out of the woods, yet. I could go with Zion National Park in Utah which Continue Reading[...]

Yellowstone National Park on the Blogging A – Z Challenge

April 29, 2023 Herb 20

Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 23070 – 1118 Here’s the haps: So my son’s family and my wife’s favorite cousin have both done this trip and it will, I’m hoping, be my turn sooner than later. Yellowstone National Park has the distinction of being the Continue Reading[...]

Xenia, Illinois on the Blogging A – Z Challenge

April 28, 2023 Herb 8

Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 23069 – 1117 Here’s the haps: As you may or may not remember from our trip to Kentucky to the Ark Encounter, on our way we will pass through the state of Missouri and I mentioned a stop in Evansville, Continue Reading[...]

Wales, Specifically Llangunllo, on the Blogging A – Z Challenge

April 27, 2023 Herb 17

Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 23068 – 1116 Here’s the haps: Since it is our plan (as the Lord allows) to visit the U.K. sometime in the future and I have written this month about a visit to Ireland, England, and Scotland, I felt I Continue Reading[...]

Velika Planina, Slovenia on the Blogging A – Z Challenge

April 26, 2023 Herb 8

Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 23090 – 1115 Here’s the haps: Petra, over at Erratic Engineeress, has a real travel blog. Oh, she covers other stuff as well but while there are a lot of sites out there that call themselves travel blogs not all Continue Reading[...]

Underground City Derinkuyu on the Blogging A – Z Challenge

April 25, 2023 Herb 14

Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 23089 – 1114 Here’s the haps: This place was kind of mind-boggling, Derinkuyu in Cappadocia central Turkey. A guy who was renovating his basement in 1962 knocked out a wall and discovered a room that led to a passage which Continue Reading[...]

Tunisia on the Blogging A – Z Challenge

April 24, 2023 Herb 14

Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 23088 – 1113 Here’s the haps: So, to be honest, Tunisia doesn’t hold a lot of interest to me at all plus the U.S. State Department website says it’s not really a safe place to go. The big tourist resorts Continue Reading[...]

Scotland on the Blogging A – Z Challenge

April 22, 2023 Herb 15

Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 23086 – 1111 Here’s the haps: As you may or may not remember my wife and I are Scottish landowners. But that’ll be just the icing on the cake of our trip. Well, as far as we know and as Continue Reading[...]

Roswell, New Mexico, USA on the Blogging A – Z Challenge

April 21, 2023 Herb 26

Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 23085 – 1110 Here’s the haps: Before I begin I do have to say that I think it’s crazy that by 1969 people were so ignorant of their own geography that the state of New Mexico had to add the Continue Reading[...]

Quebec City, Canada on the Blogging A – Z Challenge

April 20, 2023 Herb 9

Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 23084 – 1109 Here’s the haps: Queensland, Australia; Qaanaaq, Greenland; Quincy, Michigan; and Quito, Ecuador all sounded kind of interesting but none of these, including Quebec City, really burned in my heart, like, “Oh, I’ve always wanted to go there!” Continue Reading[...]

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on the Blogging A – Z Challenge

April 19, 2023 Herb 15

Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 23083 – 1108 Here’s the haps: On to the City of Brotherly Love, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I saw several advisements around the internet that crime is so bad here and there is a lot of violence but I think any large-ish Continue Reading[...]