Our second full day in Ireland finds us kicking jet lag's ass. We forced ourselves to stay awake all day yesterday, finally going to bed at 10pm. I got up at an impressive 7:30am, and we were out the door for our day's events by 9:30am, ready to learn more about Irish history than you can shake a stick at.

Our first stop led us out of the Dublin area, south to Glendalough--which by many accounts is a straight shot down a north-south highway, then west on a country highway. Well, our GPS had other