Due to the immense amount of socializing we did in Brighton, we were quite happy to stay in on New Year’s Eve. I also must admit, we don’t have much of a record of going out on New Year’s Eve…
Selfie Stick 3.0
In the course of our travels, we have had 3 selfie sticks. This first one was quite good and lasted us until the Arizona Nevada border. The second one was quite similar, but more cheaply made. It lasted us until…
Holiday in Brighton, England: Part 3
We woke up to weak sunlight, but some sun in England in December is always good. This is one of Brighton’s two piers, the one that burned down in 2003, but as it’s in the middle of the water, they just…
Holiday in Brighton, England: Part 2
We carried on seeing various friends in Brighton, which involved lot of eating out, coffees at cafes and drinks at the pub. Such a hardship. As with Chris’s friend in Eastbourne, we had other friends who had left the immediate…
Holiday in Brighton, England: Part 1
After a lovely Christmas in Slough with Chris’s family, we headed toward Brighton, which is where we used to live. The traffic was quite intense, as is typical anywhere even remotely close to London. It took us nearly two and a half…
A HiJenx Christmas
We have done all of our Christmases now. We did one in Wisconsin before we left with my parents, sister and brother-in-law, which was similar to part of what we did the other years we went to the US. We…
Driving on the Left
After 9 months and over 20,000 miles of driving on the right, Chris got into a car and drove on the left. Have a look at the video to see how it went:
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…
Legoland, Windsor
Yesterday we spent the whole day at Legoland, Windsor with one of Chris’s good friends and his family. It was absolutely mobbed. Not only was it a bank holiday (for people outside the UK, a public holiday), but it was…
Running around with Kids & Oxford
The last few weeks have definitely been intense and full, and the last two days have been no exception. Yesterday we went to visit an old friend of Chris’s and went out walking most of the afternoon with his children,…