Imagine a large home improvement store. Painted orange. With orange displays. Q. Complete this sentence: You can do it... A. You can do it. We can help. Yes, it's Home Depot (that's DEEpo, not DEPPo of course). America's answer to B&Q. And like said store, full of all kinds of stuff except exactly the thing you want. In our case an umbrella for a garden table. You would think in a city where the sun shines every day these things would be popular and cheap. Well, they may be so popular no one has any in stock? We had a really [View Full Entry]

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The first clear evening since we arrived. K wanted to go to register at the library and we stopped off on the way to watch the sun setting over Pacific Beach. The first thing we saw was a man walking along strumming a guitar. Not that odd for PB. It was when he walked past us the other way about 5 minutes later that we noticed he had a parrot on his left shoulder. I want one. I got a photo of the man, but not the parrot. Sorry. Oh, and the sunset was just as pretty as we expected it [View Full Entry]

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Welcome to my Travel Blog The title says it all! So what am I doing flying thousands of miles from North West England to sunny Southern California? Those that know me well of course understand that K has been offered the chance to come over here to work, and there is no way she is living here without me. Visas Because we will be here for several months I need a US visa. Normally it would be a simple process to get a 'spouse' visa but because K has a US passport I have to enter on a tourist visa. That [View Full Entry]

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