Apologies to all for our pathetic keeping up with this blog lark.We've managed to skype family a few times, spent far too much time on facebook and checking football results, and been enjoying ourselves too much to stay focused sit down and write this thing.So here's an update:USA was great, interesting, BIG, and ultimately exhausting! I've been surprised how much easier everythig has felt since getting to Mexico.Christmas and New Year was lovely, warm, weird bei...

At first there was the beginning: My longest flight of my life so far was good. Taking off at 2.30pm and due to land at 4.20pm, Western seaboard time, I was expecting us to chase the sunset the whole way. But soon after take off it was pretty dark outside and then pitch black. How could this be? I thought. One quick look at the in flight interactive map thingy (bloody brilliant for a novice long hauler like myself) told me the answer. We were heading directly to...