A journey along Route 66 is a bucket list adventure for so many people. Making sure you have everything you need will be the difference between a stress free trip and something that can turn into an unenjoyable chore. When driving the road you’ll want to have a couple of the things at the … Read more
New York City in winter is a dream come true – at least in the planning stages! It sounds amazing and Christmas in the Big Apple is a bucket list item for sure but if you’re not prepared you might well have the coldest trip you have ever imagined and end up spending your … Read more
NYC is just brimming with history and if you’re at all a history buff you’ll find loads of things to do to satisfy your hunger to learn about the past of this amazing city. Here are just some of the best historical sites in New York City that we found on our trip, and … Read more
The Mother Road has everything: national parks, big cities and even ghost towns. But what I love most about travelling the road is the quirky towns on Route 66 that might only have one motel and diner but have so much charm! I’ve gathered up 10 towns that you definitely shouldn’t miss when driving Route … Read more
I’m a bit of a planning freak I’ll admit it – I love the planning of our road trips almost as much as doing them! When we were looking to do the trip a few years back I really struggled to find a good Route 66 planner with all the information that I needed in … Read more
If you’re planning a trip on Route 66 then it’s pretty likely that it’s history is one of the big draws for you. We’re looking today at the historic hotels on Route 66 that you really cannot miss on your journey. Many of them are locally owned – known as Mom and Pop motels – … Read more
Spending Christmas in Manhattan is such an exciting thing to do. It seems to have been captured in so many movies and I’ll be honest, if I was to spend the holiday season anywhere in the world away from home it would be in NYC. Funnily enough it was our first taste of Christmas away … Read more
As promised, I wanted to just share some more of our pictures from the last days in New York which also happened to be the end of our adventure. Afterwards we flew back to the UK, James got a job and we rented a house back in Sheffield – all back to normal. I prefer … Read more
After our introduction to New York in Brooklyn, we had one night in Manhattan before we headed to our housesitting assignment over in Staten Island. Our night in Manhattan was so different to Brooklyn (which in turn was so different to Staten Island) and I’m really glad we saw a couple of different faces of New … Read more
New York City is an amazing place to visit and even more so with kids. It’s such an iconic place, somewhere that we’ve all seen at some point on the tv or in movies and to be there in real life is something else! There are many things to do in New York with kids … Read more