A perfect weekend in America
We appreciate that not everyone can spend ten weeks in the United States of America and being the generous souls that we are we have distilled our amazing trip into a perfect weekend. Now, admittedly...
View ArticleA poem for the travellers
Huddling together with the truth before your eyes, worrying That rope that hangs around your neck You never thought to wonder how it would feel to be like this once more Trapped amongst the weeds and...
View ArticleThe world is not enough
Have you ever really wanted something only to get it and realise that it wasn’t quite what you thought it was? For the last three or four years Thom and I were hellbent on taking time out to travel the...
View ArticleNew Zealand’s longest swing bridge
(c) hickerphoto.com We seem to have spent the majority of this world trip crossing bridges! We’ve had the Golden Gate Bridge, the Drum bridge at the Japanese Tea Gardens and we’ve got the Sydney...
View ArticleTravelling in the USA on less than $100 a day
In a previous post I asked ‘Is America a Real Country?‘ because there didn’t seem to be many travellers visiting this great part of the world. Interestingly, one of the responses to that which I...
View ArticleThom and Sean works of art
One evening in New Zealand, not long after dinner, I asked Thom to draw a picture – of anything – he decided he would draw me. The photos below are of a)the picture of me and b) the way I actually...
View ArticleA birthday barge on an English canal
A long, long time ago in a land far, far away… Day one… We finally all got together at about 6 o’clock on Friday night at the canal barge called “1966 ‘n’ all that”. Thom, Katie and Mike had been stuck...
View ArticleSo what happens now…
We could have had a baby in the time that we’ve been away! If either of us had a womb. It’s been nine months and two days since our last real blog post and today’s my last day in work before we go...
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