Our last weekend was spent with an old family friend in South Norwalk. We had packed and checked out in the morning, stored our luggage at the hotel while we visited Central Park and The Met, and then ...

New York was planned as our last major stop on this incredible journey. And, boy, what a city to finish in (with). Noisy, crowded, interesting, beautiful, ugly, expensive (there are many words to describe ...

Karen and I both remember exactly where we were when the first of the twin towers was hit: eating at a small sichuan restaurant in Hong Kong with our friend Ward Platt and his girlfirend who's cell ...

After a short hop from Durham we arrived in DC early afternoon on the 2nd of July. We had booked a room at the Georgetown ...

Independence Day in the USA is a big big deal. The flags and red, white and blue bunting is everywhere. And on the day itself almost everyone wears a version or combination of the USA colours. It's ...

The stop after Charleston is Washington DC and we are excited. As the drive is a bit too long to do in one go, we broke up the journey by stopping over in Durham.

After collecting our rental car from the parking garage in Savannah, we headed for Charleston South Carolina. As we had time we decided to take a more scenic route and stopped off in Beaufort for lunch.

We arrived in Savannah on Monday afternoon. It's a pretty long drive with heavy traffic (around 6 hours). Karen had a long video chat with the family – Caiti and Wayde in London, Jess and Dan in Chichester, ...

We took the 06:00 flight out of DSW to Tampa. Getting up at 03:30 is not easy. Especially after only getting to bed around midnight the night before, after attending a baseball game between the Texas ...

We arrived in Dallas via Spirit airlines on Saturday afternoon to spend a few days with Karen's brother Mark and his wife Alison. Boy, Spirit's ground staff are full of the "don't you [fucking] ...