April update

I'm pretty certain no-one at all reads this blog, so it's not like hundreds of people world-wide have been holding their breath in anticipation for our next move.

Not an awful lot has happened since last blogging - Duncan's girlfriend Eilidh will most likely be joining us for the final leg of our America adventure - somewhere in northern California up to Oregon/Washington.

No news on a car yet either. Car tax is rumoured to be cheapest in the states of Ohio and Wisconsin, so it looks like we'll be buying from there if we get our fingers out. However, having just watched the Top Gear America special, we shall most definitely not be writing any of the following slogans on the side of our car whilst driving through the deep south: "Hilary for President", "Country & Western is rubbish", "Nascar sucks" or "Man love rules OK".

Perhaps slightly un-travel related, was the surprise with which we read a news story that a convicted murderer in Utah had been given the choice of lethal injection or death by firing squad given that the death sentence exists in 35 American states. We shall most definitely be behaving ourselves over the water now.

According to Duncan, if you buy your plane tickets with a credit card, then your flights are insured should the company go bust. However, should the old boy Eyjafjallajokull decide to let rip again around the the start of Autumn, flights to America could be disrupted. But I'd actually need to have some flights booked in the first place to be affected by volcanic ash. So I guess I should go out and buy some flights soon...