Anyone who knew me when I first moved to the UK knows I have very little love for Apple. They annoyed me by considering me a different person when I moved to Britain so I had the choice of losing…
England & Arizona: A Comparison
When Chris’s parents came to Arizona, it made me think a bit more about how the UK and Arizona compare. For instance, my mother-in-law watching some of the local news found out it was meant to snow somewhere in Arizona.…
One Year On
As of yesterday, we have been in the US for one year. Granted, we weren’t living here in the most typical sense until mid-January of this year. Nonetheless, a year after our arrival, we decided to record a short video about…
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…
LoJenx of the Journey
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…
Top 5 Best U.S. States
Here is the video of our top five states: 5) South Carolina South Carolina is beautiful, especially the coastal areas. It has the beautiful, successful city of Charleston. We learned that the city are actively courting tech companies, which makes it…
Top 5 Worst U.S. States
Now that we have given our views on all of the regions, we are going to compare the states in a much more absolute way, looking at the country as a whole. We are not going to give our full list…
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…
Regional Roundup 10: California
California is also easily its own region with its 38 million people and several climates within one massive state. It has beautiful beaches with great weather, but that said, it is in a horrible drought that we were told was made…