Born To Be Wild

We wanted to get out into the wilderness a bit on this trip and not have to rely on staying at proper campsites every night.  Campsites are OK but they cost money and although there are some really nice ones, at the cheaper ones you occasionally have to mix with trailer trash and rednecks that live there full time, as well as morons from abroad who don't have a clue what they're doing.  Wait, that's us. Fortunately there...

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He Ain't Heavy....

Everyone knows it's not too hard to find a good meal in the USA.  And it's no secret that I enjoy a good meal.  Sharon and I have both been to the US many times but for some reason this time more than ever, we've really noticed the constant barrage of food adverts on billboards and TV. The TV ads are not even timed to coincide with meal times.  You can be sitting there at 5am, awake because of jetlag and not even entertaining...

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Planes, Trains and Pickup Trucks

Since we got here we haven't had much downtime because we've had to focus on boring, trivial things like not being homeless for the entire year. But we've made the most of any fun time we could grab.  RV dealers don't generally open on Sundays, except for the massive ones, so on the first Sunday we headed over to Daytona beach on the east coast of Florida: It's ridiculously long, over six miles I think.  They've...

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Luck Of The Irish

Well, we've been here a few weeks now so it's high time we started this blog. It's been a hectic couple of weeks since we arrived and actually fairly stressful.  No doubt everyone back home is full of sympathy! We didn't get off to a great start, with our connecting flight from Dublin being delayed by four hours after the plane was deemed unfit to fly.  Bad omen number 1?  Suffice to say that Aer Lingus are about...

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