Nashville was to feature as one of our more extended stops and the journey there was eventful and for a time suggested it might be longer than we had anticipated. We had become aware of a slight leak the day before into the passenger side footwell, initially I put this down to air con condensation […]

Blowing Rock, NC actually gets it’s name from the fact that there is a nearby cliff looking over John’s River Gorge where objects light enough (like snow) blow upwards rather than down. This effect gives the town it’s name and was also seen on Ripley’s Believe it or not! It’s a very cute town and […]

There was some degree of question as to whether we were going to get here. And we paid the price for it, time wise. Contrary to some schools of thought, we are not both unemployed (we are just not working for anyone else) but the thing about the Appalachians is that cell (let alone data) […]

Today was the day for me that the road trip really started. I had been excited to see Washington and it didn’t disappoint but the ethos of this thing is not about the major metropolises. The weather was stunning as we rolled up to the North Gate of Shenandoah, so far we have been very […]

It was Police Week in Washington DC so it was a busy one. We saw one Police Officer get so drunk he ripped his t-shirt and pulled down his pants while declaring “Anyone, who wants to make $300k/year, come speak to me, because this is what we do!” He got kicked out of a bar […]