This particular trip has a major challenge that I will be facing tomorrow and that is renting a car to then drive to parts of England that I am not remotely familiar with. This is the real drawback to traveling alone and I sincerely hope that the GPS and I will get along. For reasons that are not important, I have had troubles with these things in the past. However, we shall be optimistic and as I mentioned earlier, I have allowed extra travel time so that I may go slowly and not feel rushed.

The other aspect is that no, I don’t have any sightseeing days built in, not with being gone for two weeks. The moving from hotel to hotel pretty much every day is a tiring piece, but again, it’s the nature of this trip. The individuals that I’m interviewing are scattered about and there’s no way to have a central location that I can hub from. So, last night is a good example of constantly moving. Notwithstanding the photo on a website, you never quite know what a room will be like until you check in. The place I stayed on my first night was okay, but the room was too small with no desk for me to be able to work comfortably. That dashed my hope to re-book there to spend last night and tonight. Not wishing to repeat the experience, I booked into a different hotel for last night, determined that the room would be just fine and then discovered that they couldn’t accommodate me for tonight. Okay, I am now booked into a different hotel for this afternoon/tonight and will see how that is. If it’s suitable, I will reserve a room for the last evening of my trip and possibly for one day prior. The “possibly for” is because there is one more individual whom I would like to interview, but that hasn’t been firmed up yet. Since I don’t know for certain where that individual lives, I haven’t the faintest idea of how I will handle that day or where I will be.

Anyway, I have been fortunate with the weather and do hope that continues.