After travelling down the East coast of the USA we felt some R&R was in order, so booked a week’s stay in the Regal Palms resort in Orlando. The resort itself was okay, the town house we stayed in was much too large for us, we were rattling around in it a bit but it had everything we needed. The resort had a nice pool and bar so lucky for us the weather was doing something unusual for the year - staying at about 92 degrees. The major downside was the lack of WiFi in the town house, essential to our travels, and so we had to do any online stuff sat by the pool or sipping 2-1 beers - we feel your sympathy! We also spent some time looking at properties, cheap as chips, to ... read more

After the last, epic, entry this one is likely to pale in comparison for one main reason the weather. We moved on the hundred miles or so south from South Carolina into Georgia. Our destination was that other southern city we have all heard or read about, Savannah. Like Charleston, it reminds you of a bygone age, when life was tough but exudes that certain charm. As I said the weather conspired to ensure we didn’t see the City at its best. Whereas we’ve been able to enjoy everywhere we’ve visited so far by walking, now the heavens decided to open up and let us have it. Undeterred, we drove the beast into Savannah, parked up in the visitors centre and acted like lazy tourists and took a ‘hop on/off’ trolley tour. Savannah was founded in ... read more

We drove the last few miles to the end of the Blue Ridge Parkway and ended up at the gates of the Smokey Mountain National park. Just outside the park is Cherokee, home to the legendary tribe. (The Chief’s grandfather sends his regards Dad and said hope your scalp has healed). We parked up for the night in a National Park and went for a short walk, no electric, water, internet nothing but mountains, trees and rivers. Trust this night to be the coldest yet. Multiple layers of clothing do not make up for central heating. But it was lovely. (All the other RV’ers seemed to be cooking over open fires, seemed funny when we all had perfectly good gas cookers and microwaves, or maybe we missed the point). The next day we had to slightly ... read more

Washington DC, we could just say yeah it’s okay, but that would not be enough. The visit started well, the hotel we had reservations with was fully booked and to help them out we graciously let them pay for us to stay the night in another hotel, which we liked so decided to stay there and got a second night at half price - result! With little time on the first afternoon we decided to get the grey cells working and visit one of the Smithsonian’s and chose The National Museum of Natural History. Really we couldn’t do it justice in a few hours and could have happily spent a whole day there. We Brits are good for some things, apparently the Smithsonian Institution was founded by none other than an English scientist named James Smithson, ... read more

New York, New York, do we ♥ it? Jury’s out. But here’s the first piece of travel advice from us. If you come to Manhattan, don’t take those tour busses that are everywhere. Walk. It’s amazing, it’ll give you neck ache but it’s so worth it (as they say here). When you get tired use the subway, it’s cheap and an experience, especially during rush hour. Anyway back to the trip, we foolishly decided to drive onto Manhattan. The drive down Long Island was easy but as you travelled through Brooklyn it was a lot busier. What driving did was give us the first spectacular view of the New York skyline, the famous view from Brooklyn is marvelous. Driving through the midtown tunnel the Garmin decided it didn’t want to work underground but blind luck, as ... read more