We are now on the road and it’s a bit manic. In the meantime, here’s a snippet from the Minor Differences: Around the Home post that we didn’t include: Tomorrow, we’ll have a bigger update on the start of our…
A Dodge-y Cup of Tea?
Like most adults, Chris and I are fans of caffeine. I am mainly a tea drinker, while he is more into americanos. In order to get proper (black) tea, you need to be able to boil water, not just make…
Dodge-y Power
A video showing how we’ve added a 12v power outlet to the trunk: After this was shot, we left the RoadPro 12v Cooler Bag (full of cider) and ran it overnight. We managed to not run the battery down meaning…
Dodge-y Cooking
In preparation for being on the road for a long time, we have bought a series of car appliances. I believe most of them are intended for truckers. None were especially expensive, so we were skeptical of whether or not…
Anniversary HiJenx
Chris and I had our first wedding anniversary outside of the UK on Monday. We had a few pressing things to sort out in the morning (car insurance and Chris getting Apple Pay to work on his phone), but decided to…
Fancy Phones
Starting over in a new country entails buying a lot of big ticket items in a short amount of time if you want to function fairly normally in that country. This one happens to double as a blogging tool. We…
Muscle car for the unmuscular
We don’t own a car. I haven’t owned a car since before I met Jess. In England I would drive a car club car about once per week: But this is a car journey and we are on a road…
Chicken Tikka Masalla, Dude
One of the things I have been anticipating is the lack of Indian food in the United States. OK, I know that you can get just about everything here if you look, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that it will…
American Firsts with Laura
We spent most of Friday with my friend Laura. Chris experienced a series of fairly American firsts. The first of the firsts was a garage sale. Brighton in particular tended to be lacking in garages and therefore in garage sales.…
The Rules of the Road
Yesterday afternoon Chris and I did different things. He went out in the car with my dad to get used to driving on the right and to a different set of laws, while I did the first five levels of Norwegian…