The last day. We didn’t have much planned other than being at the airport in time for the flight home. The forecast was an 80% chance of thunderstorms so we made the decision to forego the beach in Cape Cod in favour of a tour of Providence. It had started raining by the time we […]

After a breakfast of fresh fruit, scrambled eggs with cheese and toast, we bid farewell to Brooklyn and New York. We’d left late to avoid the commuter rush but the roads were still busy with every road seemingly at a standstill. Fortunately the interstate wasn’t far, through Queens and the Bronx, but whilst it was […]

Our second and final day in New York city. Today we were going to visit the places we had missed; but first the place that caused New York to hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons, Ground Zero. We caught the B line from Newkirk in Brooklyn to Dekalb Street. The New York subway […]

New York city. This time  we caught the Q line to Times Square, putting ourselves in the heart of Manhattan. A seething mass of people, in cars, on buses and on the sidewalks. Busy, chaotic and vibrant. We needed to convert our online purchase of a city tour package into real tickets at Madame Tussauds […]

We bid an early farewell to Washington as our parking meter kicked in at 7am and we didn’t intend feeding it. As it was we joined rush hour, Washington-style, fortunately most of it going in the opposite direction. We left DC via Maryland, and passed Annapolis onto the Chesapeake Bay bridge, 4 miles over water, […]

Washington, home of the American president. We were staying at the State Plaza and had a kitchen and dressing room in our suite on the 7th floor. No breakfast though so we set out to find some. The White House was about 10 minutes walk so we went there first. As it was still early […]

Back to a more normal day except breakfast was waitress served, not self-service as it had been up until now. Biting the bullet I had a short stack of pancakes with maple syrup and ‘breakfast meat’ aka crispy bacon, with grapefruit juice. A short stack, I was informed, was two pancakes, a tall stack three. […]

Today was going to be long, hot and probably very boring! As we’d bought tickets for the Chelsea game after working out our route, we had to drive the equivalent of two days in one. Instead of staying overnight in Portsmouth, Ohio, we were now aiming to be there at lunchtime. It also meant we […]

Got up a bit more leisurely today as we were staying in Indianapolis. We had planned to move on, but then found out Chelsea were playing Inter Milan at the Lucas Oil Stadium tonight and had bought tickets. A unique opportunity to see our team that we weren’t going to miss. I’d even bought a […]

We have a lot of distance to travel today, a lot of driving down to Indianapolis. The weather was cool and dull with rain expected. If it’s going to rain I’m pleased it’s on a day we are mostly in the car. And it did rain, quite heavily at times. Then the sun would come […]