Travel Journal
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Winterbourne Stoke, UK to Devizes, UK
Our real target for autumn is not England, but France and parts south; we expect to do our main exploration of the UK next summer. So essentially we’re just spending a month or so in England “killing time”, waiting to start our 90-day Schengen visa clock. The Queen Mary 2 landed us in Southampton, which… Read more…
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Southampton, UK to Winterbourne Stoke, UK
It’s time to begin learning what cycling the UK is like. It can be a lengthy process in a new country, requiring exposure to different roads, cyclepaths, and traffic types, observing the behavior of other cyclists and drivers to learn what is culturally acceptable, all while regaining comfort with cycling on the “wrong” side of… Read more…
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North Atlantic, International Waters, to Southampton, UK
The Queen Mary 2 arrived to Southampton while we slept, so waking up and looking over our balcony rail this morning showed a bunch of ugly port infrastructure, quite a change from a week of seeing nothing but open ocean (also, I could see the large luggage carts stacked with peoples’ checked baggage being forklifted… Read more…
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North Atlantic, International Waters
I’ve never thought of myself as a “cruise person”. In fact, I had assumed (hoped?) that I would pass to the end of my days before ever taking a cruise. Read more…
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Brooklyn, NY, USA to North Atlantic, International Waters
Last night, I wanted to check something about our cruise, so I entered my info (you get a “record locator” code, just like for a flight), and the website returned “Sorry, your ship has already departed.” WTF?!? Did I mess up the dates?!? After a few seconds of panic, I told myself that I had… Read more…
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Chappaqua, NY to Brooklyn, NY
I needed to continually remind myself that we were not actually repeating a ride from Chappaqua to New York City that we’d done two years ago. Because it certainly seemed like that’s what we would have done. After all, I had memories from then of being all over Manhattan, and loading our bikes onto a… Read more…
