So today was Stonehenge day, which was awesome! Stonehenge has been in England longer than the wheel (no joke, folks). AND when the neolithic Englishmen decided to build Stonehenge (and no one knows for sure why they built it), did they say to themselves, "Gee, we haven't discovered the wheel yet, let's go easy on ourselves and use some local rocks for this project."? Oh no, they did not. They went and hauled stones all the way from the mountains of Wales. It was worth the effort, though, in my opinion-so incredible to see. It feels like, if you look at it long enough, you'll be able to figure out what the secret is.
Stonehenge isn't the only stone circle in the UK. The Avebury circle (bottom picture) is much bigger, and has about 50 resident sheep. Veeeeery mysteeeeerious.
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Your trip so far reminds me strangely of LOTR. Only without the ring. Or the fellowship. Or Mordor, Gondor, wizards, dwarves, elves, hobbits, dragons, and so on. But other than that, it's a remarkably similar story! OK, maybe not.
Or maybe it's more like a Grail quest. Only without the Grail, the zealots, the mystery, etc.
Or maybe it's just what it is. A great year of adventure and a lifetime of memories. I'll look foward to following your progress and thoughts.
THE "OLDER THAN DIRT" REFERENCE IS OBVIOUSLY REFERING TO MY ADVANCED GEEZERHOOD AND THE MILESTONEHENGE I WILL NOT CELEBRATE TOMORROW. PEBBLEHENGE WAS A MERE MINILITH IN MY DAY.
THANKS, MON, FOR POSING IN FRONT OF IT AS I REQUESTED. DON"T FORGET, I EXPECT SIMILAR POSES FOR HADRIAN'S WALL AND CARNAC.
Great to hear from you, Uncle Pete! Well, on Stonehenge day we also visited a village called Castle Combe, which hasn't seen any new construction in a couple hundred years. It pretty much looked like The Shire. Then we had lunch at a pub in Lacock called St George's. St. George's liquor license was issued in the 1300s. It was very "we must meet Gandalf and the Prancing Pony!" THEN we drove through an area where there is chalk about 12 inches below the topsoil, and people have carved images into the hillsides. There were several carvings of white horses, and I said to myself, "ride, Shadowfax, show us the meaning of haste!" And now I have made too many Lord of the Rings references and am in danger of revealing my true nature nerdy nature.
p.s. The Abbey in Lacock is where they did alot of Hogwarts filming for Harry Potter
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