Month: June 2025

Travelling Light!Travelling Light!

4 June 2025|

How we manage a 3-month trip with just two light-weight bags.

Birmingham Alabama, taken by street photographer, Justin Morrison.

We are walking through the city on our way to catch the train, carrying all our kit with us.

June 4, 2025

Travelling Light!

How we manage a 3-month trip with just two light-weight bags. https://youtu.be/GktO-AUf7DI?feature=shared Birmingham Alabama, taken by street photographer, Justin Morrison. We are walking through the city on our way to catch the train, carrying all our kit with us.

April 14, 2025

Reflections from home

Since returning to Devon, we’ve often been asked “which place did you enjoy the best“, and the answer to this question has been different for everyone who has asked. This trip was never about the destination, rather it was the journey to get there and beyond and ultimately to return...

December 25, 2024

Observations from Christmastime in the USA

Imagine miracle on 34th Street, well when you take whatever life throws at you it’s never anything like you imagine! On our travels across America, we seem to hit most of our stops on the wrong day, just after a Christmas event or just before it was to start…. Winterhaven,...

December 12, 2024

Amtrak – Riding the railroad USA

https://youtu.be/jPDzelZEQKw?si=faNe8R8DllZnClKV The original road trip in the USA was travelling on the railroad. Made romantically famous by Beatnik poets and musicians jumping a train and riding around the country. It was also the mass transportation network carrying a growing population from the East Coast to the new land of opportunity...

November 26, 2024

Driving a rental to Manteo, Roanoke Island NC

https://youtu.be/Jygqn4Ci_5Q?feature=shared Roanoke Island is protected from the Atlantic by a long thin strip of barrier Islands called the Outer Banks OBX. To arrive in Manteo, we needed to drive the Croatan Highway from Kitty Hawk, through Kill Devil Hills and Nags Head. The buildings here are often built raised up...

November 19, 2024

Catching up in Manteo and Roanoke Island

Well, what a whirlwind of a weekend! We arrived in Bideford’s twin town Manteo on Roanoke Island on Friday around 4 o’clock and we have had such fun catching up with buddies. We drove down here in our rental car that we picked up in Richmond on Friday morning –...

November 16, 2024

The Adventure Begins

When the reason for travel is the experience of the journey; when the destination is both fluid and dynamic; the adventure begins as soon as you leave the front door!

October 20, 2024

Our Route

Our route and stops until 2025. We are mainly travelling by Amtrak train, with some bus journeys to favoured destinations, where the train no longer goes. Our first stop is Richmond Virginia and then we hire a car to visit Bideford’s twin town Manteo, because there is no public transport!...