Since we moved, we have hardly traveled at all. We went to the UK and Italy briefly in 2016 and San Francisco just before we got the cats. For various reasons, we finally went back to Wisconsin and opted to…
Minor Differences: Bread and Cheese
A common complaint of the British when visiting the US is that the bread and the cheese are terrible. British people I have spoken to often seem to think most American cheese is that really processed rubbery stuff or at…
School Robotics Clubs
As some of our readers who also follow our instagram may know, my dad mentors a high school robotics club. I weirdly was in Wisconsin at that same time that they ran into the former speaker of the US house…
Travelling to England
We’ve gone back to Britain to visit for Christmas. It will only be my second UK Christmas and Chris’s first one in a while, so we really looking forward to it. Here is a short video of our journey from…
Minor Differences: Christmas Shopping
Much of what pertains to Christmas and its preparations in the US and the UK is similar, but of course, not everything. Here’s a video of us exploring some of the things are US specific to Christmas:
Minor Differences: Christmas Ornaments
The British tend to put something they call a bauble on their Christmas trees. Americans would probably recognize this as a type of ornament often called Christmas balls. The bauble or ball is just the beginning of what Christmas ornaments are on…
Happy Thanksgiving or Chris Installs Windows 10
So we are both horribly sick this Thanksgiving (and have been since last Friday in my case and two days ago in Chris’s case), so that means we don’t have a new video or even a future video about Thanksgiving…
Remember, Remember the Fifth of November
In England, we still celebrate the foiling of the Gunpowder Plot in 1605 by burning the Guy on a bonfire. Along with this, fireworks are let off and sparklers are held. The celebrations are pretty tame with the notable exception of the Lewes Bonfire:…
Product Roundup
We bought many pieces of equipment before and during the journey such as a selfie stick, a car, some phones and a kettle. Here is a roundup of what did and didn’t work:
Day 147: The ‘Last’ Day
We headed across a small bit of Wisconsin to Michigan. We were absolutely exhausted and we ended up going the wrong way and having to reenter Minnesota and then go back into Wisconsin. There was very little in the far north…