Home…. Finally

Before I begin, a thousand thanks to all our Canadian friends who welcomed us ‘home’ today, even before I’d posted that we’d crossed the border, which happened at 3:00 this afternoon, having clocked 5,230 kilometres. Yay! Wonderfully cheerful and helpful customs guy,...

Nine states, and we wind up in The Hamptons!

Yep – since leaving Virginia this morning we’ve passed through West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts… ending in New Hampshire. It’s been a very long day and it was the first time our efforts to find a hotel were...

One time zone, two states

After a tough day yesterday when we both crashed, we were in bed by 9:00 and up at 5:45 this a.m., when it was already daylight. It’s surprising how different the daylight hours are the farther north we travel. Without harking on about the galloping obesity in the US,...

Wot ya’ll doin’ in Tennessee

It’s been a day of roadworks, with a long delay through Nashville that kept us short of our destination hotel in Knoxville – but no reservation to worry about so slipped into a dog-friendly Quality Inn in Crosseville. It seems that every other town east of Nashville...