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 ...

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 ...

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] ...

Nashville was a short trip from Minneapolis. Arrived Thursday evening and left Saturday to visit Dallas (where Karen's brother lives).

So we tried to get a lot in in a short period of time. Trev's ...

For no reason, we hadn't planned on visiting Chicago. But so many people said that we had to go. So we did. Gavin contacted his old colleague Mickie from Hong Kong TBWA days (around 2001).

She ...

We are so lucky to be able to spend time with my brother and sister-in-law Trev and Les in Minneapolis. Minneapolis is an important city in the USA and is home to five Fortune 500 companies. It is also ...

We dropped our luggage off at the Amtrak King Street station and then had some time to kill. Breakfast was a delicious doughnut and cappuccino. And then we got onto the Lock (not loch) tourist boat. ...

One has heard that the weather in Seattle is unpredictable, wet and often overcast. Sounds like London or even Cape Town. We have had drizzle, overcast skies, cold (but no wind) since we arrived on ...