We really loved Vermont. After staying in a lovely hotel and having a good night, we felt positive about things. The people we continued to meet in Vermont helped maintain this. They have an absolutely gorgeous that is fantastically well…
Day 32 Part 2: The Best Motel in America
After that we went on to Vermont: Our experience was almost instantly excellent. Both people at the welcome center were a) extremely welcoming and b) extremely informative. They helped us find an absolutely stellar motel, by far, the best we…
Day 32 Part 1: New York State
New York State was very rural in large parts. Unlike a lot of other rural places we’d been to though, people didn’t seem very interesting in chatting. We tried talking to people in a few towns without much luck. We…
Day 31 Part 2: Poughkeepsie and Highland, New York
Next we headed into New York state. We decided to skip New York city because though I’m sure it’s great, we know we don’t want to replace living near one giant overcrowded city, i.e. London, with another, especially as we had…
Day 31 Part 1: New Jersey
After spending a little over a week in Media, we got back on the road. We started with New Jersey. Chris got to experience the New Jersey Turnpike as seen on the Sopranos. Check out the video: Next we went…
Day 30 Part 2: Dover and Lewes, Delaware
In the afternoon, we headed into Dover, their capital. Like many older US cities we have been to, they had an old one, as well as the current one: Next we headed down the coast to Lewes. There is also…
Day 30 Part 1: Delaware
The next day we traveled through the state of Delaware. It is the second smallest state in terms of size, so it was not hard to do nearly the whole state and go back to Val’s in Pennsylvania in the…
Day 29 Part 2: Bill and Bell – An Afternoon in Historic Philadelphia
After doing the Lego art, we gave the historic area one final go. We got to see the Liberty Bell, which had a much shorter queue this time: We also checked out the Constitution Center next. We had been planning to go…
Day 29 Part 1: Finally Philadelphia at the Franklin Institute
We gave Philadelphia one last try. The third time was, for the most part, the charm. We went to the Franklin Institute, which is a science museum: They were doing a really excellent Lego art display that travels from city to…
Social Security, Nearly
We have some progress! A few days ago, I wrote back to the immigration people asking what had happened to my case. My previous theory that observer effect could be acting on the process may be true after all. A…