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I awoke early, showered, had breakfast and decided it was time to get out of Dodge. I've been waiting ages to say that. I had a mammoth drive ahead of me. 500 miles so a mighty long day behind the…

Today I managed to drive another one of America's most scenic drives across Kansas. I'm not sure who voted it as "scenic". In fairness, the towns are the best parts of the drive. Kansas is big and flat (not as…

I decided to mooch around St. Louis before heading off as I wanted to avoid the rush hour. Now here's a thing. I would have thought that St. Louis was in the top 20 biggest cities in the US. It's…

I left Clarksville early, and I mulled the accuracy of the lyric from the Monkees song, "and I don't know if I'm ever coming back" and wondered how many others had sung that same line to themselves.  I was meant…

After the Biltmore Estate I'd planned a relatively small 370 mile drive to Clarksville in Tennessee. What was I thinking? 900 miles in two days.  The journey started out as an 8 on the pleasant scale as I drove through…

Day one of the road trip turned into quite an ordeal which has called into question my planning skills. 10.5 hours in the car covering 530 miles and I was cream crackered. I took the longer route in order to…

After a 7 1/2 hour train ride from New York I arrived in Williamsburg on Thursday evening. I've not been here to for eight years and it was good to be back in one of the most beautiful residential settings…

As long as you can count, New York is an easy city to navigate your way around and in three and a half days I managed to do most of the sights including some repeats from my last visit 30…

Liaising with the chaps at Dubrovnik airport was seamless and my "hand luggage only" friends and I were on our way to the Sunsail base at the ACI Marina within minutes of them landing. Our boat for the week was…

After dropping Georgia at the airport I walked about 100 yards to pick up a car for three days. There's something satisfyingly convenient about a small airport with everything close at hand. They didn't have the car I wanted so…