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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
