by Jean Llewellyn | Apr 16, 2019 | Uncategorized
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,...
by Jean Llewellyn | Apr 15, 2019 | Uncategorized
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...
by Jean Llewellyn | Apr 14, 2019 | Uncategorized
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,...
by Jean Llewellyn | Apr 13, 2019 | Uncategorized
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...
by Jean Llewellyn | Apr 12, 2019 | Uncategorized
Seriously?!!! Okay – for the gourmands among you, three culinary anecdotes to begin today’s blog that I think you’ll appreciate. Last night’s hotel, south of San Antonio, presented us with two $10 vouches to exchange for breakfast this morning in the next-door diner....