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Inca to Inuit - Making friends in Chicago
CITY BREAKS Memoir U.S.A

Making Friends In Chicago

Those of our friends who had spent their gap years travelling had told us ahead of our trip that we would make many travelling buddies during our Inca to Inuit adventure. Arriving at our first hostel in Huanchaco, Peru…

Inca to Inuit - New York Central Park
CITY BREAKS U.S.A

Easter In New York City

Both Jake and I come from fairly traditional families each with our own quirky take on festive tradition. For Jake it’s a BBQ brunch in the woods on Christmas day, for me, it’s an Easter Sunday of competitive  egg…

Inca to Inuit - Nashville
CITY BREAKS U.S.A

Music City – Nashville, Tennessee

Having spent the past two weeks bed bound and on a liquid diet of chicken broth and water, it was time to get back out into the World and start exploring again. We left Memphis and headed for Nashville.…

Cadilac
Memoir U.S.A

Medicine, Motels and Memphis

We were now roughly two months into the US leg of our Inca to Inuit adventure. In that time we had bought a car, become full-time campers (much to my disbelief) and revelled in southern cuisine, country music, and…

Inca to Inuit - Rodeo
ACTIVITY & ADVENTURE Memoir U.S.A

Kings & Queens Of The Rodeo

It would be nothing short of sacrilege to visit Texas and not spend at least one evening eating overly cheesed nacho’s, drinking warm beer and watching some real life cowboys get to work. After a week exploring the Texas…

Inca to Inuit - Texas
U.S.A

Hill Country – The Hidden Heartland Of Texas

Rodeo, Cowboys, and BBQ were what we expected from Texas, what we didn’t expect were Germanic settlements, stargazing and one huge Enchanted rock. Texans are a little different to other Americans, well at least in our opinion. To Texans,…

Inca to Inuit - New Orleans
CITY BREAKS U.S.A

Beignets, Po Boys & Oysters In New Orleans

We had now been travelling around the USA for almost a month. The fair weather tent we had purchased for the odd camping adventure had now become our full-time home. In an effort to stem spending we toured from…

Inca to Inuit - Miami
Memoir U.S.A

Exploring Florida – Welcome To Miami

If someone had asked me before this trip had begun where I imagined spending my first stay in Miami, it most definitely wouldn’t have been in a tent in the back garden of a hippie commune. But hey, isn’t…

Inca to Inuit - Florida
Memoir U.S.A

Exploring Florida – On The Road To Miami

Jake and I had unknowingly visited Florida the same year some twenty years ago. We were aged 11 and 10 respectively both being spoilt to every child’s dream holiday, Disney World.  We had each hugged and posed with our…