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…
Minor Differences: Christmas Shopping
Much of what pertains to Christmas and its preparations in the US and the UK is similar, but of course, not everything. Here’s a video of us exploring some of the things are US specific to Christmas:
Minor Differences: Christmas Ornaments
The British tend to put something they call a bauble on their Christmas trees. Americans would probably recognize this as a type of ornament often called Christmas balls. The bauble or ball is just the beginning of what Christmas ornaments are on…
Minor Differences: Black Friday Bed Special
A difference between the US and the UK is easily bed sizes. We had already been familiar with this difference and it played part in our choice to get rid of our memory foam super king in the UK as…
Happy Thanksgiving or Chris Installs Windows 10
So we are both horribly sick this Thanksgiving (and have been since last Friday in my case and two days ago in Chris’s case), so that means we don’t have a new video or even a future video about Thanksgiving…
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…
Regional Roundup 9: Florida
Florida is its own region due to being huge. It was amazing and easily one of our favorite states and regions. It has many options for places to live, a fairly low cost of living for what you get and a…
Regional Roundup 8: Texas
Texas is certainly big enough to be its own region. Despite this, it was also a bit of a crossroads state as well. It is surely a bigger one, but even so, it had both Western and Southern qualities. The plant life…
Regional Roundup 7: Oklahoma
The next few entries are about four individual states that defy regional category. Three do so because they are huge; they are basically their own regions. One does so just because it doesn’t fully fit anywhere else. Oklahoma seemed like a true…