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  • Nature

    Everglades National Park

    A quick trip to Everglades National Park, Florida in February 2022 to view the wildlife. Day 1 After staying the night in the Homestead Area, we arrived early at the Ernest…

  • Roaming

    Thanksgiving in Tennessee

    For our first Thanksgiving (2021), we decided to head to Tennessee. This was partly as I’d gotten an ear worm about doing a Turkey Trot and there was a fun one…

  • Roaming

    Houston – Part 1 – Things to Do

    We moved to Houston at the end of June 2021, in the middle of the strange pandemic impacted years. Texas, being the kind of state that it is, had no mandatory…

  • Culture

    New Orleans Jazz Fest 2022

    We visited 2022 Jazz Festival in New Orleans. Stretching over two weekends, with a huge variety of musical genres, we enjoyed the first weekend shows on Friday 29th April to Sunday…

  • Roaming

    Christmas in San Francisco

    We visited San Francisco for Christmas 2021. Our main consideration for selecting SF was that we needed somewhere to do our long marathon training runs, so no snow and good running…

  • Roaming

    Austin – Long Weekend Break

    For the Labo(u)r Day long weekend, we took our first trip out of Houston since moving in late June 2021. We stayed in East Austin and loved the slightly grungy vibe,…

  • Roaming

    Kumando Kodo – Pilgrimage Hike

    The mountains of the Kii penisula have been a pilgrimage destination for centuries, with the network of trails and sites of worship, now called Kumano Kodo, registered on UNESCO’s world heritage…