2025 Highlights
On April 2, Dirk and his friend Taylor climbed Mt Snowdon in Wales. It was very windy. Click here for video.
With Taylor and family, and the Beatles, in Liverpool
Dirk at the pier in Weston Super Mare after completing Chase the Sun, a 205-mile cycling event on the longest day of the year, starting on the east coast of England at sunrise and attempting to reach the west coast by sundown
On the same pier the next day
In Dunkirk, on a trip in July to see the Tour de France
Dirk swimming in Loch Ness during a rewilding (ecological restoration) trip in northern Scotland
With Hilary and Chuck Wilcoxen on Shetland during a guided hiking trip in Scotland by their company, Team Long Run
On the beach at St. Andrews, during the same trip, where the opening scene of Chariots of Fire was filmed
Our re-enactment of that opening scene (click here).
On the same trip, I took a dip in the North Sea at Anstruther, Scotland. Video here.
At the Glenfinnan Viaduct (the "Harry Potter bridge") with Hayley
At Stonehenge with Hayley
Lyme Park. Recognize it from the 1995 version of Pride & Prejudice?
Enjoying gelatos in Italy with Dirk's former French teacher at Principia Middle School, Sher.
Ellen celebrating completing the Walk 1,000 Miles challenge
Ellen at our new-to-us digital piano
Anstruther swim