D-Day 80th Anniversary celebrations, more England and Wales and more anniversaries
Read moreOur “USA Pacific Northwest” trip is getting pretty close now. Our holiday travels give us as much enjoyment in the planning stages as the actual time away. All our spare time – what there is of it – is spent pouring over prospective sights, possible routes, potential highlights, probable stops, plausible distances […]
The next leg of our “50 States” adventure is now less than 5 months away and planning, as usual, has been intense. This trip – the Pacific Northwest region. The itinerary is set, 6 states in all, including 3 new ones – First stop Washington State – and state number 27 for […]
Well, we are at the end of another tour. We have been home a week and have rushed into “Xmas mode” so Hawaii is already a bit of a blur ! Hopefully we will get a chance over Xmas to look back at our photos and videos and take in […]
After all the festivities yesterday, today we actually did our tour of the USS Arizona Memorial. The Pearl Harbor site is actually part of the National Park Service and is known as the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument. The main entrance is on the shores of Pearl […]
December 7, “a date which will live in infamy” – those immortal words from President Franklin D. Roosevelt after the surprise attack on the US Naval Base by Japanese fighter planes in 1941. Well here we are at that very spot 73 years later. And to think that my Mum, […]
