From Raleigh-Durham Daniel and I continued driving north up the east coast. On our way through Virginia we stopped at Colonial Williamsburg, a town recreated to look like a colonial village and staffed with actors who go around in old-timey dress doing old-timey jobs. It’s kind of like a big interactive museum. We saw “George…
Daniel and I were in South Carolina for about two weeks. Here are some of the places we went and some of the things we did and saw: Aiken After a week on the road going from hotel room to hotel room we decided to get an AirBnB in Aiken, South Carolina for a few…
Daniel and I have had a longstanding discussion over whether or not Texas is considered “in the South”. According to him, Texas is a Southern state, but according to anyone who grew up outside of Texas, it clearly isn’t. No one drives through Amarillo and looks around at the tan plains and thinks it looks…
There is no good way to drive through the South during the summer. It’s hot, humid, and unpleasant the entire season. Daniel and I wanted to drive though the country in a large loop, but hadn’t decided on the direction of our route. If we were to go counterclockwise we would go through that part…
From my parent’s home near Santa Barbara Daniel and I drove down to San Diego, where we stayed for three days. Even though San Diego is only three and a half hours from where I grew up and one of my younger sisters went to college at San Diego State, I hadn’t visited the city…
At the end of May Daniel and I flew from Scotland back to California. Originally we had been planning on coming back to the States around this time because we had two family weddings scheduled for the summer; however due the pandemic both of these have been postponed. After thinking it over we decided to…
When Daniel and I started traveling our tentative plan was to spend the first half of the year seeing different countries in Europe, and the second half traveling through Asia. Then coronavirus hit, and instead we spent three months in the United Kingdom; two months in England between London and the Lake District, and a…
For the past two and a half weeks Daniel and I have been staying in a small Scottish village halfway between the cities of Aberdeen and Dundee on the eastern coast. As in England, we are in a fairly remote farmhouse, though in this location we’re actually close enough to walk to a town, which…
I’ve struggled to think of what to write, because the reality is that Daniel and I aren’t doing much new nowadays due to the covid lockdown in the UK. We’re still out in the sticks in the English countryside, surrounded by sheep fields and not much else. We’ve been staying busy, reading, writing, video-gaming, cooking,…
Before starting our trip I exercised regularly with a mix of running, tennis, pilates, yoga, and weight-training classes. I wanted to continue a routine as we traveled. I wasn’t sure what exercising with no equipment for a long period of time would look like, and when I tried to find information online there wasn’t much…