Into the Land of Leprecahns 7/13-7/15

We decided to keep this as a separate blog from the Dublin experience because it really was so different. This picks up after our tours. We had to run back to where our packs were locked up and organize them so they were effective and we weren’t taking too much with us. After we did that we jumped on another tour bus because it was the quickest way to get to the bus that took us into the country and out of the city (we only had 30 minutes before the last bus left).

The “St. Kevin’s” bus was wonderful; it was like a Le Bus back in the states. As soon as we were out of the city we started to cheer up a little. It was so insanely green just as the sun broke through the clouds. We have to mention that you have never seen grass so green, nor trees so deep in color as we have on the Irish country side. I would say that it is the perfect representation of the Shire and we were two Hobbits traveling through.

After a 2 hour bus ride we came too our stop. A quaint little town tucked in the rolling hills called Laurgh. We needed to get supplies so we jumped off and went into the closest thing to a grocery store. There wasn’t much to choose from so we did our best and started our 20 minute walk along the road to the trailhead with our 40lb packs on our backs. Half way through this little stroll it started to rain, and rain, and oh yeah, rain! (Thank goodness for our built in rain covers on our backpacks)! Well needless to say, when we found our trailhead it was a muddy swamp which took about another 20 minutes to walk.

Once we were there we set up camp and started to look for firewood. We broke off dead tree branches on trees which were hard to find because there was always so much rain that hardly anything died. But we found a little grove that would be our supply for the rest of the trip. We got a little break in the rain and worked hard to get a fire going, but once it was going anything would burn on it. We cooked our canned soup then went to bed for the night.

Sleeping all night then waking up to rain, we decided to go back to sleep so we slept for about a total of 15 hours. Starting the morning with another fire and the hunt for bigger and better wood to burn. We eventually found this green spiky leave that looked like holly that when put on the fire would start to burn and act like an oil or gas. It would go crazy, it was really awesome and we would use that as fuel anytime the fire started to go out from the rain, we also build a lean too to protect our only source of entertainment.

I’m sorry if this is slow at all, but this part of the trip was just pure relaxation, recuperation, and filling up our tummies in the beautiful green surroundings. We were kind of like Bear Grylls (No big deal J) after a quick bath in the perfect temperature water we went to bed............Oh yeah and Tyler cut Justins hair into well a sexy mowhawk. Props to Ian for his!

We woke up the next morning running for our lives to catch the 7:15 bus. We caught it for another relaxing train ride back into the city….

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