North Carolina was our unexpected last stop in the US, simply because the container ship to Europe left from a place called Wilmington. It was meant to be straight forward to get there too, an overnight train from Miami to […]
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. […]
Venture Over
Last night we arrived into the port of Antwerp in Belgium. This morning we clambered down the rickety steps on to solid ground, and it couldn’t have come quicker. The Independent Venture was a much smaller vessel than our previous […]
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 […]
Talladega Nights
We had a rocky arrival into Alabama, the Megabus broke down in Virginia making us four hours late into Atlanta and we missed the Capitol Crescent Amtrak train to Anniston. Three hours later we jumped onto the next available Greyhound […]
The Washington (blog) Post
Washington DC is recommended by all who have been, great for history, food and free museums. They weren’t wrong. After an overnight Greyhound from Toronto to New York, we jumped on a 5 hour bus (or motorcoach as they say […]
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 […]
We The North
After visiting New York, Toronto was bliss. The food was affordable, the metro navigable and the place names familiarly British. From York University to Don Valley Trail, it was clearly Yorkshire folk who settled in the area. We arrived on […]
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 […]
Windy City
We did a lot of walking on our two full days in Chicago, 10 miles the first day and 8 miles the second. It’s my favourite city in the United States (Tucson being my favourite town/small city) and at no […]