Over the last few days, we have been getting ready to get on the road now that we have decided on a leaving day. We will leave on Monday since Chris has an appointment with the St. Paul immigration office…
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…
Social Security, Maybe.
Obtaining your SSN is a one-time event: you can’t get good at it. It has been awkward to not have one because you are asked for it whenever you do something financially significant. In the last video, we failed completely. Several…
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…
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Chris went to his first ever baseball game on Thursday. I am fairly certain it was also his first American sporting event of any kind. It may well have also been my first full baseball game. I knew the rules more…
I Promise to Drive Carefully, Ma’am
Chris still has no SSN, so one of our main concerns with getting on the road was not being able to get car insurance. We were very pleasantly surprised to find out we were wrong. Everything we’d googled about it…
Social Security, No.
A Social Security Number is required for work. It’s also required for many other reasons: getting a U.S drivers licence, bank account and, I suspect, lots of other things. It’s like the U.K National Insurance number but it’s used as…
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.…