6 month marker...

Come sunset tomorrow we will have been on US soil for a full 6 months aka half a year, which seems like some solid ground. I feel as if we have come so far and then it gets pointed out to me that if I was still in the UK, today would mark my 29th year on British soil. That feels like a mere moment ago.

The low grey cloud as we pulled into Membury Services (M5), the cold that we just couldn't shut out and the sight of Trevor MacDonald reading the news to the nation. Life has progressed so far since then, though perhaps not the chill.

We marked our US moment by returning to our roots in the woods of Mineral and the girls got to do what they loved best - playing Barbies with their friend Kami, bouncing forever on the trampoline, taking a picnic snack of unmentionables out to the climbing frame and finally being driven across the the muddy tracks of the state pipeline. It feels like the land of the free out there.

PS: A 5.3 earthquake after-shock epi-centred on Mineral on Monday night and we felt the rumble.