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The Beginning is in Sight
So in approximately 3 weeks, we will be packing up our life and moving to the UK. Which is weird, as nothing much has changed at all. We’re still in our house, with all our furniture, it’s school holidays with the kids, and life keeps on keeping on. The big reason is, we are still […]
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26 September-2 October: North by Pacific Northwest
It has been almost 12 years since I had been to Seattle, and I was still eager to get back there. Seattle was one of those places where I really felt at home. In 1998 I visited our relatives Stephanie and Rich Franko (as well as Nicholas and Peter) on my way back home from […]
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21-26 September: As Easy as Eh, BC
Continuing on from the Rockies, we moved our focus to another beautiful part of Canada, British Colombia. Our first stop was Kamloops, not really worth a stop but worth a drive through for no other reason but the to have Kam get a photo with one of the Kamloop signs. As we moved away from […]
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10-20 September: Rock Your Socks Off!
How do I write this post without going into a series of clichés and superlatives?? Duncan and I have hit the Canadian Rockies! We were determined to enjoy ourselves to the point that we booked two log cabins way back at the beginning of the year so we wouldn’t miss out on the authentic Rockie […]
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6-10 September: Parklife
With such an amazing day yesterday, we hit the road early, eager to get to Yellowstone National Park. I may have been a little eager, as we were asked to pull over by some officers of the South Dakota Highway Patrol. After the standard “do you know how fast you were going?” questions, a tense […]
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3-5 September: Livin’ on a Prairie
After the thick haze of excess, we arrived back to Chicago to our airport hotel for some much needed rest and relaxation. This relaxation was required not just due to the late nights and glitz of Vegas, but more so due to our impending drive ahead of us. Known for not much in the way […]
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30 August-2 November: You’re Goin’ to Vegas!
It is funny how a place like Las Vegas doesn’t need much of an excuse to visit. Our friends Penny and Adam said to us “So, if you are near Vegas around the end of the month we should catch up” – we weren’t anywhere near Vegas, but that was all the invite that we […]
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25-30 August: My Kind of Town, Chicago
With a lovely Canadian hospitality fresh in our minds, we set off back into the USA as we headed towards the Great Lakes and Chicago. With some of my favourite movies of all time filmed here in Chicago, it was one of those cities I have been looking forward to with great expectations. Previously on […]
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20-24 August: Legend of the Falls
We have almost done a full loop, having now done Southern New England, Eastern Canada, back into Northern New England and now into New York State, where we first started our North American leg over a month ago. Our short term goal was the iconic Niagara Falls, in which we took the scenic route via […]
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17-20 August: A Notch in our belt
Jeepers!! Duncan and I are writing this blog in the safety of Chicago, watching all the chaos caused by Hurricane Irene in all the areas that we have just been in! We are so lucky! Just over a week ago we were in Vermont experiencing the countryside in picture perfect weather and now we are […]