Let me start this blog by reiterating how utterly terrible our hangover was on the bus to Orlando. It really was a horrible experience, made all the worse by the fact that the bus ride was for 7 whole hours of actual human time. We were given a warning of what to expect in Orlando during our two hour Jacksonville hiatus. Our bus stopped there for a 'service delay' - I personally believe that the bus driver knew our condition and just wanted to torment us! While ...

We write this blog in high spirits as we have just discovered that a coffee machine can be used to make tea as well as coffee. Being English this means that we now have the tools to conquer the world (until the next cup at least). With Thanksgiving over, our time at James's was coming to an end, but not before he took us out for a spin on the lake in his new boat complete with sonar, sat-nav, replacement propeller blades (for any propellers that might happen...

In the words of the second-in-charge at Ron Burgundy's news station, "This is a big one"... Having not drunk in 12 days we arrived in leafy (or in Tom's words "tree-ey") Durham looking forward to a night on the tiles. Once Trudy had convinced Tom to stay out past his bed-time (9pm) our inner compass led us from the traditional Irish Bar to a traditional American Bar where we were served our beers in what appeared to be egg cups. Trudy took umbrage to this and de...

Breathing a sigh of relief as we tiptoed away in the dead of night from the mental asylum that was our hostel, we returned to the warm, protective embrace of Megabus to take us to a very out of season Norfolk, Va. This day was to see Tom's holiday age plummet to 6 as he appeared to completely lose his brain. On the Megabus he announced gladly to Trudy that he was pleased to be leaving Switzerland! Later in Norfolk when we were treating ourselves to pizza at Domi...

One sprint to Dunkin' Donuts and a minimum purchase to enable wi-fi access later, Thomas retrieved the Megabus booking reference to enable our passage to Washington. We arrived at the hostel from the film Hostel (however make sure to replace the attractive blond girls with mental, angry, prematurely-menopausal witches and a middle aged man in short shorts) - wasn't that an awkward few days! Trudy's paranoia and natural distrust of humans was certainly put to goo...