Since mid March I have pretty much been in a sports-overdose-induced -coma along with most other sports fans in America. March Madness is the buildup and play-out of the NCAA (National College Basketball) involving teams from schools across the country. It seems to me that the entire country (including the new President) goes nuts for the month. Since my arrival in the States I've been indoctrinated in the feats of the Tar Heel, from the University of North Ca...

Today it's 12-months since I posted my first blog on Off Exploring! I have to say it had been a wonderful 12-months, I've had some great experiences and met some fantastic people along the way. When I started these blogs as a method of keeping people updated with my travels I really didn't see myself 12-months later sitting in North Carolina and being in a serious relationship…….it's funny how things workout. I hope you guys have enjoyed reading my blogs a...

Back in the USA* Flew into Miami Beach (Ft. Laud. Actually) Slept in a festy San Jose hostel last night All the way the stewardess kept banging into my knee But all in all it was a pretty good flight……… I'm back in the USSR USA You don't know how lucky you are boy I'm back in the US, back in the US I'm back in the USA Been away so long I hardly knew the place Gee it's good to be back home (in my home away from home) Leave it till tomorrow t...

American Epilogue I'm writing this on a plane somewhere over the Gulf of Mexico, I should have been writing it yesterday at Duck but I was obsessed with leveling with Jamie in the scrabble challenge that had run over from Saturday. Scrabble is how we passed the time away while watching Hurricane Hanna go by. It amazing how hard it is to play scrabble with another person with the same spelling ability as me - using only two and three letter words make it hard...

Yesterday Jamie and I travelled to Duck on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. We're staying at a beach house (mansion actually) that belongs to a friend of the Fumo family. Originally we were planning to stay here until early Monday morning, when she was going to drop me off at Nolfork airport to go to Mexico but with potential hurricane Hanna heading up the coast toward North Carolina we are playing it by ear. While we are waiting for Hanna we are making the mo...