We set off quite early for us, well before ten anyway lol First up was a grocery top up, from experience super markets are rarely close to the flash inner city hotels such as we are staying at in DC. Taking the long way down country roads as usual we found an awesome local produce stall run by a lovely older African American. As well as amazing fresh fruit there was a gallery of local art and pottery made by the owner and his Japanese born wife. We bought necta...

After seeing many dangerously low power lines along the way yesterday we'd only gone a couple of minutes out of town when we came across some that were lying coiled on some guys front lawn. He was standing there holding onto one so I'm thinking the power was cut there lol We headed to the memorial for flight 93, our reason for stopping in Somerset last night. Compared to the NY & DC memorials it feels underwhelming, as if far less thought went to it than the...

It was a day of delays. Just before we left Oz I got a ticket for speeding which arrived after we left. The car is in Pete's name so he wanted to assign the points to me. Cameron rang for us and they said we needed to get the stat dec notarised here and faxed to them. After an abortive attempt to get it witnessed at a bank - we'd been told any bank will do it but not if you're not their customer it seems - we set off for the nearest BMV (local version of dept of ...

Aug 30 We headed back into Cleveland this morning. It was warm today, mid to high 20's with a few showers early and again after 4pm. We decided to spend the day at the Great Lakes Science Centre. It's a NASA research centre for space exploration and had a lot of relics from early space exploration on up to things they're working on for future space exploration. We had a great day checking out the displays, playing with the various science experiments and watchi...

We set off this morning for Cleveland taking the long way round, just for a change lol Dodging the tolls on the interstate we took some dodgy back roads around Toledo and got stuck at a railway crossing for a quarter hour when a huge goods train stopped halfway blocking the crossing. Eventually the train moved and we were again on our way. We passed some low lying marshy ground and a very full river. A large nuclear power plant dominated for quite some distance...