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…
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…
Regional Roundup 6: The Mountain West
The Mountain West is a region that I almost feel like I’m making up, but when we asked people in Utah, Idaho and Montana where they thought they were regionally, this is what they said. Wikipedia does acknowledge it as the Rocky Mountain region…
Day 10: Brighton, Colorado
We had stayed over in a suburb of Denver and had intended to go into Denver, but saw there was a Brighton, CO and decided to go there instead. Even though virtually everything in the town was newer than Brighton,…
Day 9: Into the Mountains
We had better weather for our second full day in Colorado. Chris very much wanted to see snow on a warm day so we made our way up into the mountains. We drove through Loveland up into Estes Park, which…
Minor Differences: God’s Country Cowboy Church
It’s often worth instinctively stopping when you see something that isn’t immediately parsable. We were on our way to the Rockies when we saw this sign: We met the Pastor (see below video) who was very friendly and explained that…
Day 8: Fort Collins, CO
For our first full day in Colorado, we hung out with a friend of mine who is studying there. She showed us around town and drove us up to a more scenic area, which looked oddly Scottish due to what…
Day 7: Cheyenne, WY and Fort Collins, CO
After spending the night in Douglas, we attempted to leave. This was a challenge. Some setting on our navigation system made it want to give us a detour 70 miles out of our way starting off going north instead of…