Mr. Fizgig and I had been talking about going camping in the desert with Banjo for a while. Rather, Mister was longing to go, and I looked at him like this: o.O You see, Mister loves the outdoors, and has happily hiked for a week into the wilderness. (Yes, that’s hiking for a week just [...]
Day 10: Gallup, NM to Williams, AZ – 332 miles / 535 kms Suddenly, it’s the penultimate day of our trans-continental journey! In just 30 hours, we will be arriving at a family home near San Diego. But today is a very busy day, almost visually overwhelming… We’re planning on visiting the Painted Desert and [...]
Day 9: Socorro, NM to Gallup, NM – 337 miles / 542 kms It was with some tongue-in-cheek trepidation that I chose a town called Socorro to stay in for the night. ¡Socorro! is what you cry out in Spanish when you need help. Not the Would you mind giving me a hand with this? [...]
Day 8: Van Horn, TX to Socorro, NM – 430 miles / 693 kms Van Horn, TX is an eerie place. Locals have to do most of their shopping in El Paso – one time zone and 121 miles away. When you’re spending less than $100 a night on accommodation, you don’t expect much from [...]
Day 4: Shreveport, LA to Austin, TX – 360 miles / 580 kms What a grimly amusing surprise this morning – our car covered with the bugs from last night’s Mississippi River crossing! Poor little Vlad-the-Chevy-Impala – it can’t be pleasant having squished critters all over your face. Still, it’s a small price to pay [...]
Road Trip Day 3: Trussville, AL to Shreveport, LA – 467 miles / 752 kms Another late start this morning, this time because I couldn’t resist Skyping my family – mum in southern Spain, dad in Los Angeles. So far, my iMac is surviving its journey in the boot (trunk) of the car! That’s obviously [...]
Road Trip Day 2: Lexington, VA to Trussville, AL – 550 miles / 885 kms After our first night on the road, Mr. Fizgig and I loaded up the car with all of our stuff. (To see the full list, check out the post about leaving NYC.) We joked that we’d have the packing down [...]
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So much has happened since we arrived in California, and yet so little. I noticed the other day that my fringe (bangs) really need a trim, but I don’t have a hairdresser out here yet. Somehow, my hair has become a metaphor for my life: they’re both at an in-between stage. So, I thought I’d [...]
Day 1: Swedesboro, NJ to Lexington, VA – 345 miles / 555 kms It wasn’t until we reached our friends, Mr. & Mrs. Happy + their two little kids, in Swedesboro, NJ that Mr. Fizgig and I realised how tired we were from the move. It seemed as though every time Happy Boy went down [...]
So sang Joni Mitchell in her beautiful folk song, “California”. For those of you who also follow my flaurena™ and Shyhound™ blogs, you may already be aware of my plans to move to Los Angeles in March/April. What you might not realise is that Mr. Fizgig and I will be driving the 3,000 miles (5,000kms) [...]
