A Tullyroan Travelogue

Hello Lucy, Hope you found a half decent engineer to fix your recent technical difficulties – all the ones I know are on holiday!  Glad you have arrived safely and have started your big trip.  Back in Tullyroan the two Mrs. Ds are hacking into Ryan’s computer to bring you more pearls of wisdom whether […]

We onow you are all hanging on with baited breath for our first update. Well, we have made it to a beautiful spot, where that there thon tinternet done work. except on Malkie’s phone. So no pics of our eventful day, sorry. But we are safe and sound in Rufus,, OR. Talk tomorrow…

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 […]

Hello Lucy, Malkie and Ryan, Just wondering if you have made it to Portland?  I told your Nanny you should be in Oregon by now and she said that wrung a bell.  She then remembered her first trip to America was to visit Doris and Stephen in Oregon all by herself – she took her sister for […]

Does anyone actually enjoy packing? Yes there is the anticipation of the long-awaited holiday – the imaginings of sun, sea and surf, the poolside cocktails, the lazy lunches (though in our case perhaps its more the flat tires and roadside assistance). But for me packing is an unhappy fact of going on holiday, the part […]

While Lucy, Malkie and Ryan are up to high doe about the forthcoming road trip in America, their grandmother is much more sanguine. Pictures have emerged of the road trip Mrs. D was on in the West Coast with her sister Mrs. T Well, that’s no road trip I hear you say… but here’s the […]