The flight home wasn’t until 7:20pm so Mamfa did a morning run and we had a late checkout before heading to JFK. Day 116 disappeared completely as we crossed the International Date Line en route to a 2hr layover in Auckland. It was then on to Sydney before finally arriving in Melbourne on Day 117…

Just a travel day today on the train back to New York. Some very nice scenery along the coast of Rhode Island and Connecticut. This day in sporting history (17 September) 1920 National Football League is born in Canton, Ohio; 12 teams pay $100 each to join American Professional Football Association; renamed the NFL in 1922

A fairly relaxed day around Boston today starting with a wander through Harvard (which is actually in Cambridge). The John Harvard Statute of Three Lies is named such because it isn’t John Harvard (no one knows what he looked like), he wasn’t even the founder of the Uni and the date on the statue is…

To get warmed up for the NFL game today, we started off by going to the Banshee pub in South Boston because they opened at 9am to show the North London derby between Arsenal and Tottenham. A 1-0 win to the Gunners was a great start to the day. We then headed out to Foxboro…

Mamfa started the day with a ParkRun at Danehy Park. It was then a day of walking around Boston. We did the 4km long Freedom Trail which went past sites associated with the War of Independence. I had a ride on the Democracy Donkey (it is the mascot for the Democrats because Andrew Jackson was…