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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
When Daniel and I were in London we decided to take a road trip through the country. We both saw the writing on the wall and realized that, like Italy, the UK was probably headed towards lockdown. Neither of us wanted to get stuck in London, so we decided to get a car, head to…
Daniel and I ended up in England unexpectedly, when we had to catch a last-minute flight out of Italy when the country went on coronavirus lockdown and the PM ordered non-residents to leave. Because of the unplanned nature of our arrival, we didn’t have any plans for what to do, and had only booked one…
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…