It is with some trepidation that I wish you all a Happy Easter. The last time I politely wished a lovely old lady Happy Easter, she snappishly returned: “Don’t say that to me! Don’t you know what happened on Good Friday? There’s nothing happy in that!” I was too taken aback to say another word [...]
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Apart from having “real” lemonade instead of Sprite lemonade – how I miss it! – the other obvious difference between the USA and Australia as viewed from the road is the preponderance of water tanks – often brightly coloured. Here are some of the ones we passed on our recent trip. I think they’re kinda [...]
Otherwise entitled: “Only in Key West”. I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a range of …er …sizes. And on that note (omg can you believe that last pic?) can I direct your attention to the Ninth Carnival of Radical Feminists which has picked up one of my (not so radical) posts…
Mosquitoes could be the canaries in the mineshaft of the American economy. It has been a dry year in California. They have been in a grip of a drought. Normally this would mean that the mosquito population would be reduced, but this year in some areas, this has not been the case. Why? Swimming pools, [...]
Groover quite rightly says that if he’d set me up blogging on his phone with wireless keypad before now he’d have never got me to bed. But the genie is now well and truly out of the bottle now and I sit here ensconsed at the little table in our roadside inn at a place [...]
I know it seems harsh but that is what we have taken to calling Miss Neverlost, the know-it-all voice from the GPS thingy in our hire car. Especially when she doesn’t have the roads we want to go to or takes us to some weird other road of the same name. We love it when [...]
Yesterday we got up bright and early, enjoyed our free breakfast and hit the road to enjoy a full day’s travelling. Not. In fact we slept in until breakfast had been cleared away and blearily made our way out to find a Dunkin Donut on our way to Kitty Hawk. We didn’t find one. Instead [...]
Well here we are in freezing Virginia. OMG it is SO COLD! Temperatures in the 20s which means minus 4-5 in real money. Last night we stayed at the Tropicana Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City. AC is like Las Vegas lite and the hotels attached to the casinos are cheap. 5 stars for about [...]
It snowed today. Really snowed. Big thick flakes floating down, covering the black ice beneath with a soft white duvet cover. It was beautiful. It was also a bit tricky getting out. The hire car, with no snow tires, slipped and slid and bogged down in the snow. Getting the suitcases up the very steep [...]
It was 7pm. Dark. Cold. And we’re snug in a cabin in snowy Goshen. So what do Groover, The Artist (my bro) and I decide to do for New Year’s Eve? Correct! We decide to jump in the car and drive into Times Square to watch the ball drop for the 100th time. Just three [...]
