Well here we are in Hiram Ohio, 2600km nth/west of our starting point in Miami Florida.   We are in the heart of Amish country and we have been hosted here by a Ernie & Sue contacts of Gareth & Jo Morgan, when we arrived we were met by them & members of the local […]

Roger, through a friend, has managed to score an invitation to overnight in any Fire Station we’d like as we cross the USA. Sounds ridiculous but when we reached Williamsburg, Virginia we thought we’d taste the hospitality of America’s bravest. We were overwhelmed, Chief TK (Buzz) Weiler and his colleagues Randy Swinton and Eric Stone […]

As we have met more Americans of all types I have to say that I’m blown away by the care and hospitality. They will put an arm around you and wish you well, offer you a room for the night and help in any way. In the “Old Slave Market” in St Augustine I talked […]

Our first run along backroads today – the farming area of North Carolina. It’s Sunday and obvious – the churches, one every 1 kilometres – have been doing great business, their carparks full of RUV’s, pickups and farm vehicles. Strangely the doors of all churches were closed and those that had windows the curtains pulled, […]

  Sited on a tiny island at the heads of Charleston Harbour, South Carolina, Fort Sumter is where the Civil War broke out, just after Abe Lincoln’s election on a platform to abolish slavery yet hold the Union together. The Fort was abandoned by the Yankees on 14 April 1861, and the celebration of its […]

There are cops on the roads everywhere in Miami, mostly riding Harley Heritage Specials. In true US OTT fashion, when the SWAT team goes for its daily jog along the highway, they are accompanied by 30 cops on bikes to shield the exercisers from the traffic. Actually looking at the joggers I’d be bloody worried […]

Dave and Gareth still scratch as “no-see-ums” attacked them. The local name was given to the bugs in the Bahamas that you never see but then you itch madly for a week after a bite. The boys didn’t believe me when told to wear bug repellant, so now they itch. Roger has now arrived and […]

So we arrived on Eleuthera, a long skinny island that you see the clear pale-blue Carribbean Ocean on one side and the deep blue Atlantic on the other side. We had been picked-up by the Famous Bob who is now trying to restore the once famous Rocks Sound Club, haunted by the spirits of Princess […]

We are sitting on the coast at Fort Lauderdale watching the big red sun rise from the ocean, warm balmy weather, BIG cars and utes cruise by and Gareth is telling us that oil is over $70 today. Today is Tuesday after Easter and the last 5 days have had us out of phone or […]