Stage 2 Complete but Shoddy Internet

Well arrived in County Donegal!!!! After 262 km in the car, really really well arrived! I love love love LOVE the GPS system I got with the car. My first time using a GPS system and I'm a fan! The extra 5 euros a day is absolutely worth it considering how easy it's making getting from point A to point B : priceless. Just in case my Internet connection gets cut off, I will attempt to keep this brief, so Saturday September 29th consisted of New Grange, a passage chamber that dates from around 3200 BC. It is incredibly impressive. Stunning. Monasterboice followed, with 3 high crosses - very cool as well, but hard to beat the awe-inspiring New Grange. I'd wanted to see the high crosses since a museum exhibit I'd been to at the National Museum of Ireland and it was fun getting to see the original crosses. The drive to Donegal was amazing! So many glorious green rolling hills with sheep grazing.... it was very Irish and picturesque. Once arrived well into the heart of Donegal though, the scenery changed dramatically with rugged mountains and a predominance of brown shrubs with some residual pockets of heather still blooming purple. There were also random clumps of evergreen trees....harvesting for Xmas season???? I'm not sure, but it definitely looks unnatural. I arrived around 5:45 pm (way ahead of my goal to beat sunset at 7:30) and am finding that my greatest challenge on all of these various stages of my trip will be deciding what I do and don't have time for. I want to see EVERYTHING but do realize that is simply not possible, so now comes the hard part of cutting stuff out. Even though the scenery is all beautiful to drive through, I would so much rather be biking through it! I passed a group of cyclists, and may just have drooled a little. :) My back also feels worse today than it has for a while, I can feel it sitting in the car,it's this funky bucket seat setting and I can't find a lever to change that setting. I'm a bit concerned considering how much time I'll be spending in the car over the next week. :/ Finally (Internet is holding out, woohoo!!) I would have actually gotten this post up when I got here last night, but I wasn't feeling too hot and laid down just for a little bit to try to calm the body down and ended up sleeping for the whole night!! 6:30 pm to 7 am! What? I don't feel like I've been sleep deprived but apparently needed that 12 hours. Now (feeling very refreshed) to decide what to do with today!!