Starting over in a new country entails buying a lot of big ticket items in a short amount of time if you want to function fairly normally in that country. This one happens to double as a blogging tool. We…
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Chris went to his first ever baseball game on Thursday. I am fairly certain it was also his first American sporting event of any kind. It may well have also been my first full baseball game. I knew the rules more…
Selfie Stick!
We just got a Bluetooth selfie stick by CamKix. Here are the Amazon links: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LVO4J6U http://www.amazon.co.uk/Extendable-Selfie-Stick-CamKix-Adjustable/dp/B00LVO4I9I It’s pretty light (4.6 ounces) and works well in this brief test. No more shoulder ache or jarring camera movements on YouTube. We used…
I Promise to Drive Carefully, Ma’am
Chris still has no SSN, so one of our main concerns with getting on the road was not being able to get car insurance. We were very pleasantly surprised to find out we were wrong. Everything we’d googled about it…
Social Security, No.
A Social Security Number is required for work. It’s also required for many other reasons: getting a U.S drivers licence, bank account and, I suspect, lots of other things. It’s like the U.K National Insurance number but it’s used as…
Muscle car for the unmuscular
We don’t own a car. I haven’t owned a car since before I met Jess. In England I would drive a car club car about once per week: But this is a car journey and we are on a road…
Chicken Tikka Masalla, Dude
One of the things I have been anticipating is the lack of Indian food in the United States. OK, I know that you can get just about everything here if you look, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that it will…
American Firsts with Laura
We spent most of Friday with my friend Laura. Chris experienced a series of fairly American firsts. The first of the firsts was a garage sale. Brighton in particular tended to be lacking in garages and therefore in garage sales.…
The Rules of the Road
Yesterday afternoon Chris and I did different things. He went out in the car with my dad to get used to driving on the right and to a different set of laws, while I did the first five levels of Norwegian…
The Great Banking Mystery (Plus a video about Pudding)
We started out the day with some fairly good news. Chris finally doesn’t have to go to the dentist tomorrow and the weather is absolutely perfect: 70F/21C and not a cloud in the sky. It devolved fairly quickly though with…