This was not our first visit to Brussels. Because it is located at the end of the eurostar line we’d been to the station many times before on trips to Amsterdam and further afield. If you want to go east […]
Crossing the Pond
The journey across the Atlantic was a significantly different experience from our other ocean crossing, largely because the Independent Venture was half the size and 10 years older than the G Washington which had taken us across the Pacific. The […]
South Beach, Bringing the Heat
I’ll begin this blog with one of the first things I learned about Miami after we arrived, maybe it will be a new piece of information for the readers, maybe it won’t. Miami and Miami Beach are two different places. […]
Transatlantic, Less Than Frantic
It’s about that time. Today we board the Independent Venture in Wilmington, North Carolina for our home continent. In 11 days time, if everything goes to plan, we will arrive into Antwerp and then four days later catch the train […]
Life in a haystack
For our fifth workaway of the trip we house sat a straw bale house in Ontario. The owner was away studying in Toronto for three days a week and because the house was completely off grid it needed someone to […]
In a New York minute
We arrived into the Big Apple by train from Chicago. The line is named the Lakeshore Limited because it skirts the shore of Lake Erie as far as Rochester and then heads south east, eventually meeting the Hudson River which […]
There’s a pyramid on the Mississippi
I have to admit that my reasons for wanting to visit Memphis were tenuous at best. I’ve always liked the Paul Simon lyric “for reasons I cannot explain there’s some part of me wants to see Graceland”, the song Walking […]
Bienvenue à New Orleans
We arrived into New Orleans late. After my first Amtrak train had dropped us off an hour early I guess things needed to be brought back to reality. My second picked us up 2 hours late from Tucson and then […]
It’s Always Sunny in Los Angeles
For the first time I find myself writing a blog about a city that I am confident 90% of readers will have seen in some detail. This city has featured in popular culture so prominently over the last half a […]
It looks a million Patacas
I have never felt as seasick as I did on the ferry to Macau. Rosanna felt the same way. It was called the “turbojet” and it makes the trip from Hong Kong in 50 minutes. They were 50 long minutes […]
