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…
Category: Coronavirus
What I’ve been Loving in Quarantine
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,…
Rural England in Pictures
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,…
Locked-Down with Sheep
Daniel and I have been in rural England for the last three weeks, and we plan on staying here until it becomes easier to travel. When we realized that quarantine was imminent, we decided to go someplace rural where we’d have more space and an easier time avoiding others. We’re staying in the area between…
Rome in the Time of Coronavirus: seeing the sights, fleeing the country
As you may have noticed from our “Where Are They Now” page, we are currently supposed to be in Rome. You may also have seen on the news that all of Italy has been placed under quarantine to limit the spread of Coronavirus until April or later. For those of you who have been texting…