A Tullyroan Travelogue

Day 2 began earlier than I had hoped – 3.57am.  The following hours involved rolling around in bed hoping to go back to sleep, checking the weather forecast at various locations on our route (which included a mixture of sun, rain, snow and thunderstorms) and trying to find highlights of Ulster’s win over Edinburgh on […]

The second day of driving has swept us along into our third state: Idaho, via a short cut through Washington. Amazing to feel the difference in climate here, cooler and damper. No, it’s not because we are closer to Ireland. We’re in the Idaho panhandle and looking towards the foothills of the Rockies. Mentioning the […]

With the planning and preparation phase complete (essentially, book flights, buy an oversized map and show up at the arranged time), the dream team set off in search of the open highway. Just a few hurdles to overcome in the meantime, not least the mammoth flights plus stopover totalling 19 hours, and the customary ‘secondary […]