http://immir.com/blog Adventures in the US of A Mon, 02 Aug 2010 13:31:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A report on our life in the US wouldn't be complete without some account of the place where we've spent the most time – Princeton – which is of course the location of a famous university but is also a lovely historic town surrounded by a green, semi-rural residential ... http://immir.com/blog/?p=154 Last weekend we ventured off on our final east coast trek. Michael had arranged to spend Friday working at Fort Meade in Maryland and so we decided to combine business with leisure. We set off on Thursday, heading for Lancaster County in Pennsylvania, home to the Amish and Mennonite communities. ... http://immir.com/blog/?p=108 Last week headed north to visit Connecticut and Salem, Ma. Trusting Google directions (which had been pretty reliable till this point) I picked Michael up from work at 4.30 and we headed onto the New Jersey Turnpike - a truly mind boggling maze of connecting roads that leads to and ... http://immir.com/blog/?p=98 Last week we spent two amazing days in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and had one of the best experiences of our trip so far. Gettysburg of course is the location of the bloodiest battle of the American Civil War (one of the bloodiest wars in history) and is regarded as a ... http://immir.com/blog/?p=92 Our second venture to New York was a kind of 'mopping up' operation - our aim being to get to the places we'd run out of time for on the first visit. Thus we spent a day jumping trains trams and ferries to visit Ellis Island and the Statue ... http://immir.com/blog/?p=15 How to describe our first experience of New York? As soon as we emerged from Pennsylvania Station (but not from track 29) onto 7th Ave, we were confronted by swarms of yellow taxi cabs - a sight almost as iconic as the Empire State building and the Statue of ... http://immir.com/blog/?p=4 OR Not born in the USA (Male readers beware: this email is written by Cate and contains shopping references) Being in America is a strange experience. In one sense everything is so familiar that it seems like you haven't left home but then, as you go about your business, you discover that ... http://immir.com/blog/?p=3 The upgrade you're having when you're not having an upgrade OR Just getting there is half the fun! It all started so promisingly - we picked up our hire car on Sat 28th and headed off to Sydney - a bit later than we'd planned but what the heck - we were on ... http://immir.com/blog/?p=2