Naturally, the trip wasn’t all roses. This is the worst of the trip, things that have stuck with us as negatives. The worst driving still goes to Indiana. Even though Boston, the Bronx and California were challenging, as were most…
Journey Surprises Part 2
Here’s the video: The US is a very religiously diverse country, so maybe we should have been expecting cowboys to have their own church, but this was still a big surprise to us both: European style basilicas in the middle of…
Journey Surprises Part 1
Here’s the video: The sculpture park in South Dakota was still one of the oddest and definitely most surprising experiences. It ties in with the more general unexpectedness of all the roadside things people have built in this country. Even…
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…
Regional Roundup 3: The South
The South is is not just ‘the part of the US that is not in the north’, but the cultural South, most of which was in the Confederacy in the Civil War. This includes everything from Virginia down to the Florida Panhandle in the east and…
Day 67: Back on the Road and Into South Carolina
We got back on the road and headed south through the rest of North Carolina. Much of it was still a corridor of trees: One town that we stopped in that stood out as being particularly nice was Laurinberg. It…
Day 66: North Carolina Roundup
On our very last full day in North Carolina, the green card did indeed arrive, as we posted about when it actually happened. Our last day there mostly consisted of waiting for the post and packing up our mountain of stuff.…
Day 65: Chapel Hill, North Carolina
We finally got our oil changed on one of our last days in North Carolina. It was a fairly painless process and I was able to do another Skype ESL lesson right from the dealership. Kudos to Verizon for the…
Day 64: Raleigh, North Carolina
We finally made it to Raleigh, the largest city and capital of North Carolina. We took our friends’ son to the children’s museum there, Marbles. Chris was unfamiliar with the concept so I assume other British people may be as well.…
Days 61-62: Pittsboro & Siler City, North Carolina
We finally got going again. We started gently by spending the afternoon in the nearest town, Pittsboro. We had lunch in town, and once again, I had a really excellent mac and cheese. It has become wildly popular since I was…