I have dreamed of several things ever since I was a kid. I dreamed I would play cricket for Australia. Well that’s not going to happen. Travelling was a dream. As was wanting to see a show on the West End in London and Broadway in New York (first one […]
This week has been quite different. We have been staying in a small city in Illinois, called Bloomington. We chose Bloomington in part because it was a good location (2hrs in either direction would get us to either St Louis or Chicago). The other reason was because it was the […]
I found a deer. It had a white tail and the body was orange. The deer was on the side of the road as we were driving past. We left Niagara Falls and were on our way to Cleveland. The deer was eating leaves off a tree. I am the […]
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so […]
On Monday we were on the big bus tour boat cruise in New York, we saw the Statue of Liberty (freedom) up close, it was a green girl in a skirt and t-shirt and she was wearing a crown. She was also holding a torch and a book. I liked it and it was really big […]
On Wednesday we went to the Hershey’s Chocolate World in Pennsylvania and we did the make your own chocolate bar. There were three steps we had to complete: First we had to choose a base chocolate, the candy inside and design a wrapper We had to watch our chocolate go through the […]
It has been a very long time since I have posted anything and so much has happened that to do a catch up post would be ridiculously long. So I am just going to pick up where we are at. We have made it safe and sound to the United […]
From Toys’R’Us, I bought a Power Rangers toy. It was the Dino Super Charge Morpher. It also came with two Super Chargers – the T-Rex Charger and the Stego Charger. I saved my pocket money and finally I could buy them. The Dino Morpher can also join with the Dino […]
So last week I saw an advert for bloggers to review the 2016 New York City Guide from Independent Guidebooks. Well, I figured, another guide book never goes astray, especially if it’s up-to-date and can be put on my iPad to read whenever I want. Plus we are wanting to […]
It takes a lot to plan a year away, back packing on a budget with a young family. This is where our planning is at so far.
