After 11 months of being on the road, we decided to call it quits for a while and return to normal life. At least insofar as that’s possible these days. Since Erika and I have had a chance to visit a fair bit of the US this year we tried to decide where we wanted…
Whew, what a year! It was an incredibly unexpected year for us like most folks, but we still managed to visit 7 countries, and 30 US states. It wasn’t quite what we had hoped when we set out last January, but I wouldn’t have wanted to spend 2020 any other way. The bumps in the…
Erika and I spent about a week in North Carolina. New Bern New Bern is a town of around 30k people at the fork where the Trent and Nuese rivers meet. It’s near the Atlantic ocean, but not quite coastal. Its location gives it a warm and muggy climate in the summer. New Bern’s main…
Confession, I may be addicted to coffee. I never drank coffee regularly until I started getting it free at work. It’s true what they say, the first hit is always free, but the later ones cost you. All that being said, during our travels one of the creature comforts I’ve tried to keep up wherever…
1. Watching Deep Space Nine Deep Space Nine is my favorite Star Trek series. In my opinion, it’s underrated and overshadowed by The Next Generation and Voyager. Deep Space Nine was ahead of its time, the linear story arcs that the writers used in the show wouldn’t become popular in television until ten years later,…
One of the biggest things to figure out before we started our trip was what things to bring with us, how much, and how to carry it all. We started with the goal of traveling without any checked baggage which meant a single suitcase and personal item each. I wanted to be reasonably comfortable in…
As part of our ad hoc trip to The UK, we decided we wanted to stay at a more remote place in the countryside. A consequence of this is that we’d need a car to get around. After doing research, I found out that I could legally drive in the UK with just a US…
As most folks know, I’m a bit of a car fan. One of my favorite things about traveling outside the US is seeing cars that we don’t have at home. So without further ado, here are some of the cars I’ve seen lately that are I thought were cool. Mini (San Francisco) This is a…
Spending a year without any income (outside of investment interest) is a daunting idea. Intentionally doing so while also planning on seeing the world is doubly so. When we first started thinking about traveling for a year, we wanted to set a maximum budget we’d be comfortable spending. We took a look at our finances…