Foxboro, United States Travel Blogs

The decision, the visas and the clean up
Jul 4, 2008

It was decided but there was still the issue of the visas and cleaning up our affairs in Massachusetts. We had very comfortable lives. We had cars, a property we were renting next to a state forest (great for my mountain biking), I owned a house and we ...

The Start
Feb 12, 2009 (20 photos)

Day 1    Feb. 11th (Wednesday) Jane & Gary took us to the bus station in Belleville and at 1pm the bus arrived to take us to Toronto. We were suppose to arrive at the airport shortly after 4pm but the bus got a flat tire. We got to the ...

Camping American style
Nov 1, 2008 (5 photos)

Last night and early today some hundred or more motor homes filled with american families arrived at the camp site for the weekend.  The sky is clear, and the weather is very mild.  It's a very popular campground and in summer is fully booked ...

Dangerous animals, alcoholics and suicide
Jun 30, 2008

How the hell did you two end up in Darwin and where the hell is it is a question we got a lot! We can blame Erica for that. Erica was looking for a new position and we'd talked about moving on to somewhere new, maybe somewhere in Western USA, an area we'd ...

Blown into Bahston
Jun 7, 2006

Drove about 3 1/2 hours from New York to Foxboro, Massachusetts (in the Boston area) in some of the hardest driving rain we've seen yet. Winds of 20 to 40 mph kept Greg up on top of the wheel the entire way. Our greatest consolation was was being happy ...

A crazy two weeks - Australia here we come!
Jul 18, 2008

We had 2 more crazy weeks before leaving. Monday I gave notice. Tuesday and Wednesday the house was carnage as the moving company came through. After that point we were using plastic cutlery and sleeping on our throw away mattress. We had a lot of friends ...

"We celebrate the past to awaken the future" - JFK
Oct 30, 2008 (10 photos)

  We have so much we want to do in this city of Boston, that it's difficult to find enough hours or days.  As you will have probably picked up from my last entry, the city of Boston is quite beautiful.  Never, have I seen so many trees ...

The Colours of Autumn - Cape Cod
Oct 30, 2008 (22 photos)

  We arrived into Boston last night, after an almighty 7 hour drive (which is quite short these days), and I would like to say that it was 'four seasons in a day' - unfortunately it was not.   It was winter:    rain, snow, ...

Birthplaces, Beginnings - BOSTON !
Oct 31, 2008 (21 photos)

The first shots of the American Revolution were heard here, George Washington resided here, the world's oldest commissioned warship still afloat, is docked here, Benjamin Franklin was born here  .... This is where it all started - AMERICA'S FIGHT TO ...

5 small states in one day
May 20, 2006 (3 photos)

... saw me off and I began my drive up the New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island coasts to Massachusetts and Foxboro stopping in to see beaches and other interesting spots along the way. One was a little private beach. Another was Mystic Beach. ...