We have finally had visitors after living in Arizona for 4 months. Chris’s parents came in late April. Check out a short video of their arrival and all the British goodies Chris’s mum managed to squeeze into her bag. More…
Minor Differences: No Daylight Saving Time
A difference from anywhere else either of us have lived is that the majority of the state of Arizona does not observe daylight saving time (summer time in the UK). The rest of the US will be changing this weekend…
Arrival in Arizona Part 2: Sleeping and Surfing
We woke up extremely early, but we have decided to attempt to go with this a bit. Arizona has an amazing big sky. Even on the few cloudy days, the sunrise is worth seeing: Now that we had an apartment…
Arrival in Arizona Part 1: Apartment Hunting
For our first day in Arizona, the weather was very cold for Arizona and everyone here seemed deeply confused as to why it was 40F and raining. It’s a bit like if it snows in the South of England I think…
Flight to Phoenix
We have made it Arizona and our flights were actually better than expected. We have flown with Delta before (usually at Christmas) and had only previously had horrible flights with them, but both were fine, despite one of our two flights being the…
The Best of Our HiJenx Journey / And the Winner is…
The best beach of the journey was easily Panama City Beach, Florida: The best sunset was in Albuquerque, New Mexico: The best drive of the trip is a three way tie between driving down the Florida Keys: Driving down Florida’s Atlantic Coast from…
Day 111-113: Phoenix, Arizona – Supermoon Eclipse
Since we have really liked Arizona and it is basically head to head with Florida in the current runnings of where we want to live, we stayed yet another day. We caught up on editing and did still more swimming, but also…
Day 110: Phoenix, Arizona – Chicano Art and a Free Haircut
We checked out the recommendation of the lovely woman we met the night before. We saw a display of chicano art. Chicano is a fairly political word that was new to Chris, but familiar to me as someone who did…