We spent a week in Cardiff and I have to say I really like the city. It was very different from Edinburgh which I liked as well. Cardiff is a very modern city. Much more like American cities. Yes, it still had a castle in the middle of it and the house we stayed is…

We’ve come to the end of our first location in the UK. Ten days in Brentwood, Essex staying with our expat friends Jonathan and Angela. Wasn’t what I expected, since I thought they lived in a suburb of London and that Jonathan worked in London. Brentwood is kind of a suburb of London, one train…

We don’t trust the Abilene airport. That’s why we aren’t flying out of there. Instead our flight starts at the DFW airport. Our original plan was to have a friend or relative drive us to Dallas, but that didn’t work out. We didn’t want to leave a car in Dallas for 3 months, so we…