Roanoke’s home, Blue Ridge skies and bluegrass heaven.

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Day 13: Thursday, October 12 2017. We’d booked three nights in Roanoke so it felt like we could settle in and take our time. The whole area was so beautiful and with lots of live music around it felt like we had actually arrived somewhere instead of just passing through. First morning and we set

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Alien invasions, Stevie Ray Vaughan and classified information.

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Day 15: Saturday, October 14th 2017. Half way through our trip already. A hazy sunny morning with the promise of heat later in the day as the mist slowly clears the mountain top just visible rising up at the back of Tinker Creek. There’s that pinkish glow all around that promises a beautiful day and

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Roaring Falls Furnace, bears and summit meetings.

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Day 16: Sunday, October 15th 2017. Another glorious autumn morning in the land of the free. And we are enjoying the freedom. Not that we’re in shackles at home particularly, it’s just the feeling of being completely away from the familiar, the ‘normal’, the regular. Corners not turned before, roadsides never passed, people unknown, landscapes

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Gaps, silences, Ohio and a hug for Maisie.

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Day 17: Monday, October 16th 2017. Planning for a road trip involves a bit of guesswork. You can never really know how long you’ll want to stay at any particular place, the map of the US can be deceptive in its scale, and living on a relatively small, fairly crowded island gives you a different

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Polyanna, pigs, buggies and the Amish.

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Day 18: Tuesday, October 17th 2017. Our hosts Rebecca and Jim had both left early for work and we found ourselves alone in the house with only Maisie for company, who wandered up to us and thankfully now seemed fully accepting of these new strangers. We could all learn from Maisie. Nosying around other people’s

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Let’s Rock ‘n’ Roll!

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Day 19: Wednesday, October 18th 2017. It’s one for the money, two for the show, three to get ready, now go cat go, as today we lurch from one ideology to another in double-quick time. You’d be hard pressed to find a more marked contrast between the buttoned-up, shrouded world of the Amish and the

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Niagara Falls and Canada.

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Day 20: Thursday, October 19th 2017. Toast and peanut butter for breakfast, make sure Marie is safely locked in, then off to Niagara Falls. It may have been our setting on the satnav again but it was curiously difficult to find. We seemed to drive along suburban roads for miles with no sense that one

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Vermont in the fall. The End.

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Day 21: Friday, October 20th 2017. We returned from our American odyssey a full year ago so it seems a fitting time to now sit by the log burner, take myself back to last October and finish this final post as the mellow light of autumn returns to this old England. ……………………………………………………………………….. We leave Buffalo,

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