Today, we drove from Hagerstown to Falls Church, near Washington. If you’re looking for driving directions in the Washington area, don’t use Map24! The directions were useless, telling us, for example, to take the exit 9B towards Shady Grove Road. Shady Grove Road is exit 8. And if you take either exit, you end up [...]
I think I have to rename our blog to “Steve and Mary-Anne’s Culinary Weblog”. We drove from Pittsburgh to Hagerstown, Maryland, and the main event today was eating in the Schmankerl-Stube. Mary-Anne spotted the advert in the local guide in our hotel room, and we decided we had to try it. It is a real [...]
We drove from Erie to Pittsburgh. The drive was uneventful, except for a few seconds of sun. The colours in the trees would have been quite pretty with a blue sky and sunshine, but we still haven’t seen anything prettier than Switzerland in autumn. (I’ll have to post some of my autumn photos when I [...]
This morning, we drove out along Presque Isle, a peninsula in Lake Erie. I had never visited the Great Lakes before, only flown over them. It really feels like the seaside; there is no sense of being at a lake. It was quite cool, so we didn’t stay long.
Mary-Anne enjoyed the beach immensely
Today was a relaxed day: off to a late start, we visited a factory outlet mall (where we spent nothing), ate a good yet cheap lunch in Perkins restaurant, then drove to Erie, where we found a reasonably-priced hotel with a jacuzzi bath in the room! I took the room immediately, only to discover that [...]
We’ve been travelling under clouds and in rain for three days. It’s quite depressing after the blue sky and sun of Colorado. I’ll never again say that permanently sunny weather is boring, I promise! Today, the sun broke through the clouds twice, for about ten seconds each time. It was like a breath of fresh [...]
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We’re heading south to Virginia, to visit our friends Ben and Esther Rosenbaum. I used to work with Ben before they moved back to the USA. I sent him an e-mail to let him know when we would probably arrive; he wrote back to tell me that the timing was not so good, because it [...]
And what if it is a normal crisis? Or simply an emergency?
(Seen near the Niagara Falls)
We returned to the falls today, having seen only the American Falls part yesterday. The Horseshoe Falls are the more famous part, and much larger. Unfortunately, we could not see them entirely, because the cool weather means that the spray immediately forms a dense cloud, obscuring everything behind it. Even so, the falls are impressive; [...]
