May 27th (Written May 28th)

The next day was dominated by travel. We got up at 5am or so, packed up, ate breakfast in the Hostel lobby, then caught a 6am bus. That took us to Sigel, and then we got on another bus to Donegal, where we ate lunch. Lunch for me was a delicious and strangely sweet ham and cheese and other thing sandwich, and then (two hours later) I had half a pizza, which had sounded better on paper than it was in reality. Still good, though. The next bus, which was more of a van than a bus, took us up from Donegal to Dungloe/Dunglow, where we were picked up by John and Niki. Both of them are really nice people, and they took us over the hills to their home near Crolly. We were set up in the loft above John's martial arts studio, and then we ate a delicious stir-fry dinner that was just on the verge of my spicy tolerance. We then hung around and watched youtube videos of some guy presenting on an alternative understanding/treatment of cancer. As that went on for one 10 minute video after another, (there are at least 9), we got distracted to talking about other things. They pulled out some home-brewed beer, and talked some more, and eventually I went up to the loft and almost immediately fell asleep. I think it was around 9:30pm or so.