Gang aft a-gley.” – from “To a Mouse,” by Robert Burns. I never cared much for Steinbeck and prefer the original. It has never been truer than this trip. Those of you who have been following this trip (and those of you who listened to my incessant talking about it Read more…
Along with “Broadening our Horizons” as the boys like to sarcastically quote, we are also trying to go with the flow of the trip, be more relaxed, and have more fun as a family. In that spirit, we have decided to rethink the itinerary a bit and delete a few Read more…
Instead of AAA for roadside assistance they have AA here. We had to use them on both of the first two full days we had the rental car. Yes, that’s right. Two days in a row we needed roadside assistance. I may actually need the other AA before this trip Read more…
If it was up to me, I could happily stay in London forever. Especially now that there are only half of the people that I am used to sharing elbow room with. London without tourists is my own personal heaven. My family, however, is ready for the next big adventure. Read more…
Life is not a bowl of cherries and this cannot be a picture perfect vacation no matter how hard I try. Eli brought to my attention that I was glossing over some issues on the blog and so in an effort to keep everything as real and authentic as possible Read more…
ONE day of quarantine left! We are horribly stir crazy and can’t wait to get outside. Okay, okay, I am the one who is horribly stir crazy… Rob and the boys have been training for this for 15 months. I have spent the last several days planning what– and when– Read more…
This is my 5th trip to London in the last 19 years. Since I am stuck in a hotel for another 5 days, I figured maybe I should take stock of what I have learned on previous visits. There will be a few pictures, but they are from previous visits- Read more…
We are killing time in a 2 bedroom suite at a Residence Inn in London while we complete our UK quarantine requirements. The quarantine requirements do not change for vaccinated individuals so the fact that the boys have been unable to be vaccinated is irrelevant. I really expected to enjoy Read more…
We were ready early and I laughed that something was really wrong if we were actually going to be early for a flight…. The traffic to Newark was relatively smooth…. We sailed through a very short TSA line and I commented that I’d never even seen a line that short. Read more…
Our trip from Albuquerque to Knoxville was uneventful. Chad survived the trip and we were thankful he is a larger vehicle as we still seemed to be smashed in like sardines. We stopped in Oklahoma City and Memphis on the trip back and made sure that we timed our Mississippi Read more…