Tuesday 22nd May Well here we are back home in Higham Ferrers after our mammoth jaunt around the world. During the last 28 weeks we have visited 12 countries Taken 19 flights Endured 5 train journeys Took 3 ferry trips and 2 coach journeys Hired a car on 7 separate occassions and finally stopped at 61 different locations. Are we shattered? yes but it was worth every moment. Signing out now Linda and Ron

Tuesday 8th May The hotel in Miami offered a complimentary continental breakfast, normally in American hotels this would consist of a Danish pastry, a blueberry muffin and coffee. We were pleasantly surprised to discover that this breakfast was a full blown buffet, at a cost of $75 per room for 1 nights stay it was really good value, we also had free internet connection. We took the complimentary shuttle service to the airport and tried to check in at the Americ...

Sunday 29th April - Tuesday 1st May Time to start travelling again and we are booked to travel with Amtrak Trains at 2.30 pm, catching the Sunset Limited journey to New Orleans, the trip was scheduled to arrive into New Orleans at 4.00 p.m. (local time) on Tuesday. Andy and Jan drove us to Union Station in downtown Los Angeles, it was fairly easy to find the station as it was just off Interstate 10. We checked in our luggage and said our goodbyes, we couldn;t th...

Monday 9th April Touched down at Los Angeles airport at 09.30 after an 8 hour flight, unfortunately we arrived at a different terminal and on a different airline from what we had told Andy and Jan, consequently they were not at the arrival gate to meet us.Using some logical thinking we headed over to terminal 2 where we should have originally landed, and found them there wondering if we would be on the next Air New Zealand flight later on that day. We then had a...

Just arrived into USA Monday a.m. where Andy and Jan picked us up from airport, just going for a dip in their swimming pool.