I'm heading off in two more days, to Ireland for my artist residency at Cill Rialaig. The Cill Rialaig Project, which opened in 1993, was founded by Noelle Campbell Sharp as a place where artists, writers and musicians can spend a period of dedicated time developing their own work. There are seven cottages, each with studio space, that were restored from the ruins of a deserted pre-famine village, circa 1796. Situated on Bolas Head, a remote peninsula in County Kerry , the cottages sit on top of a cliff face overlooking Ballinskelligs Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. I'm going to meet up in Killarney with my dear friend Rebecca Crowell , an artist from the U.S. We'll rent a car to get to this remote residency. It's a 3 mile hike into the nearest town of Ballinskelligs so it will be convenient to have a car, and especially wonderful to have two of us to share the driving in case one is frightened of driving a stick shift on the left side of t...