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It’s been a while since I’ve posted on this blog. We got back to the UK in mid March and a combination of busy-ness (& business!), illness (man flu) and generally the fact that there were more productive things to be getting on with has meant that this final post has taken a while toContinue reading “J&S in North America 10”

We left San Francisco under a cloud, metaphorically and physically. As we crossed the Golden Gate Bridge there was no visibility beyond 300m – something the Bay Area is famous for in the morning. As a result Alcatraz wasn’t visible, though we saw a few points from Dirty Harry, which we’d watched by way ofContinue reading “J&S in North America 9”

We got the ferry onto Vancouver Island, British Columbia last Friday and passed into our fifth country since leaving the UK: Canada. I wanted to call this blog ‘From BC to BC’ but it’s a bit obscure, plus we’re ending up in Alberta so it wouldn’t have made sense. Alberta is AB so it couldn’tContinue reading “J&S in North America 8”

We’re now in San Francisco. It’s been longer than I’d planned since my last post, as we haven’t had much breathing space. Lots has happened so I’ll put it all into a couple of posts so they’re not overlong. Our last two nights in Mexico were pretty uneventful – we travelled up the east coast ofContinue reading “J&S in North America 7”

I’ve never crossed a border as strange as the one between the USA and Mexico. The frontier where we planned to cross, at Otay Mesa, east of San Diego and directly north of Tijuana, is a 6m high rusty fence which runs in a 140 mile straight line from the Pacific ocean to the border between CaliforniaContinue reading “J&S in North America 6”

We left Black Canyon on Sunday, three days ago. I’d hoped to write another post before now, but what with my last post being a couple of days late and busy days here I haven’t had a chance! The Black Canyon Project is based on a site in the hills to the east of San DiegoContinue reading “J&S in North America 5”

On our second night in LA we were woken up by what sounded like a car exploding, followed by gunshots and police sirens. Nominative determinism has finally brought us to North America. After a long and stressful journey, during which our paid-for seats and baggage were cancelled and had to be re-booked and paid for againContinue reading “J&S in North America 4”

We arrived in Los Angeles late yesterday. Just a quick one on the highlights of the rest of our time in France before the next blog on what we’ve been up to since arriving in the US… We went across to Spain – Sarah’s first time – down the coast to a town called El PortContinue reading “J&S in North America 3”

I think I might have misnamed this blog, as our first week or so is in Céret, in the south of France near the Spanish border. We flew into Toulouse on Wednesday and stayed overnight at a motel near to the airport. To save money we walked to a local supermarket to buy bits to eat ratherContinue reading “J&S in North America 2”

I thought I’d write an introductory blog for anyone following this to get some perspective on what our plans are, and to check that this ‘blog’ format actually works. I imagine that most people reading this blog will be people who came to our wedding 18 months ago, and many of you we have not yetContinue reading “J&S in North America 1”