My Big American Adventure

Sky Is Clear, 11°C Winchester I’m home. This photo pretty much sums up my afternoon after driving back from Heathrow this morning. Thanks Mum and Dad for looking after the house/Gizmo and...

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Sky Is Clear, 11°C Winchester All my fridge magnets I bought as souvenirs along the way. Powered by Journey .

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Goodbye, New York! Along the horizon, in the middle you can just see the Statue of Liberty. About a third of the way from the left edge is the Empire State Building. It was clearer in real-life t...

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Sky Is Clear, 9°C John F. Kennedy International Airport Ahhh, at JFK waiting for my plane. It’s been an awesome trip. Thank you everyone involved! It’s been sad saying goodbye as I’ve...

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Brunch at a real diner in Queens with Little A, Daddy (Stu) and Auntie Michelle. We ate so much that Little A, Auntie Michelle, and I had to have a nap in the afternoon while Stu did some cleanin...

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Light Rain, 13°C Mable’s Smokehouse & Banquet Hall, Berry Street, Brooklyn, NY, United States After a day of lounging around in pyjamas and just generally taking it easy after Zoe had gone ...

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Sky Is Clear, 11°C Lazy day hanging out in pyjamas with Little A. We took selfies on my tablet and he helped me brush my hair then started on his too. Mummy (Zoe) helpfully joined in by making...

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Overcast Clouds, 7°C Meatpacking District, New York, NY, United States And the boots are back on. And the parka. And the gloves. And a nice hot coffee from the local hipster place (Gansevoort...

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Meatpacking District, New York, NY, United States An interesting old door near the Gansevoort Market in the Meatpacking District of New York City. That’s all. I sat on its steps briefly to ...

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Gansevoort Market, Gansevoort Street, New York, NY, United States Gansevoort Market in the Meatpacking District of New York. I’m pretty sure it was never like this originally. But it’s rath...

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500-514 W 23rd St The one thing I wanted to do on this visit to New York City was walk the High Line. It’s an old, elevated railway track that runs down the West Side of Manhatten. The track ...

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As might be gathered from previous posts, I’ve done quite a lot of driving this holiday. In Missouri, 638 miles (according to the Hertz receipt); in Virginia, 148 (according to me, as Hertz wer...

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Six hours on an Amtrak train from Richmond, Virginia to New York City. Actually a good journey, once I’d got on the train. I had power for all my gadgets, wifi, and plenty of space (the seats o...

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Historic Jamestowne, Colonial National Historic Parkway, Jamestown, VA, United States This man is blowing glass. 17th Century style. He’s making a candle holder from some green glass which wi...

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1365 Colonial National Historic Pkwy I then visited the Archaerium, which is a museum of the archaeology at Jamestown. Among many other things, they display the skeleton of a 14 year old girl...

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Historic Jamestowne, Colonial National Historic Parkway, Jamestown, VA, United States Best sandwich of the holiday! I’ve fallen several times for choosing the ‘sandwich’ option and gettin...

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Historic Jamestowne, Colonial National Historic Parkway, Jamestown, VA, United States I spent 24 hours in Virginia so that I could visit Historic Jamestown, the location of the first permanent ...

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414 W Cabarrus St After a fun but relaxing few days in Raleigh, NC, it’s time to move on. This time, I’m taking Amtrak. This is the train coming into the station only about 1.5 hours behind...

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IBM, East Cornwallis Road, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States As I was in Raleigh, NC, it would’ve been rude not to go visit the Raleigh-based IBMers I work, or have worked, with who a...

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Scattered Clouds, 20°C Chapel Hill As we walked back through Chapel Hill, I saw this mural and thought it was rather cool. It continues on the wall around the corner where there’s also a ke...

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