5,520 miles. Went for a drive with the wife.

[London Best]

Very interesting @NoBodyImportant. 
I have only been able to trace my ancestors back to he 1820’s. 
Possibly because they were peasants and not landowners like your lot.

[marsh man]

1 hour ago, NoBodyImportant said:

No not technically.  Turks and Caicos  was British if i remember correctly. So not sure if that counts. I have looked into it a few times but the US dollar doesn’t go far over there.  So whenever we are looking at long out of country trips we normally end up in South/ Central America. One day I will end up over there for a Castle tour.  My ancestral home is Abercynrig in Brecknockshire Wales.( though my line of Aubrey sold it to an Aubrey cousin in the late 1500s) so I will go there for sure to see it before I die.  But when I looked into it years ago the home wasn’t open for tours.  So eventually I’d like to get a hold of the owners and email them to see if I can set it up.  Its not like I know the owners but I’m hoping they would be kind enough to at least let me see the outside of the place if I can show my ancestral paperwork. From the paperwork I have that area of wales was given to a man named Sir Reginald Aubrey. He was born in Normandy but his grandson son was born there in Wales in 1095 and the Aubrey family lived there until the 1500s when my line sold it to a cousin (still Aubrey tho). And in 1632 a man named John Aubrey was born in Virginia making him the first Aubrey born in America.   I haven’t found documentation  but I’m assuming by the the fact  Reginald Aubrey Senior was born in Normandy in 1030 and his grandson was born in Abercynrig in 1095 that my family played apart in the 1066 invasion and got that land as payment of sorts. (Just a guess) but I have to seen the place before I die. 

Very interesting , maybe some of our Welsh members could be a bit help with the location you might one day be visiting  .

You would have to go up and down the U K two or three times to do 5000 plus miles on a road trip , a friend of mine is now taking three months off work to walk with his wife the full length of the U K from Lands End to John O Groats ,the route they are taking add up to 1,115 miles and they will be walking on average 15 / 20 miles a day .     MM 

[NoBodyImportant]

2 hours ago, marsh man said:

Very interesting , maybe some of our Welsh members could be a bit help with the location you might one day be visiting  .

You would have to go up and down the U K two or three times to do 5000 plus miles on a road trip , a friend of mine is now taking three months off work to walk with his wife the full length of the U K from Lands End to John O Groats ,the route they are taking add up to 1,115 miles and they will be walking on average 15 / 20 miles a day .     MM 

 

3 hours ago, marsh man said:

Very interesting , maybe some of our Welsh members could be a bit help with the location you might one day be visiting  .

You would have to go up and down the U K two or three times to do 5000 plus miles on a road trip , a friend of mine is now taking three months off work to walk with his wife the full length of the U K from Lands End to John O Groats ,the route they are taking add up to 1,115 miles and they will be walking on average 15 / 20 miles a day .     MM 

Sounds like a sore time.  My friend talked me into walking the Appalachian trail when I was like 18.  I made it about 75 miles and I realized it wasn’t for me.  

[NoBodyImportant]

4 hours ago, London Best said:

Very interesting @NoBodyImportant. 
I have only been able to trace my ancestors back to he 1820’s. 
Possibly because they were peasants and not landowners like your lot.

Yes, land ownership was the key on my dad’s side.  My wife’s hobby is building family trees and she is really good at it.  But the trail almost always goes cold when someone doesn’t own land.  My mom’s side went cold in the 1800s also.   My wife said my dad’s side was easy to track because we were a first son lineage mostly and the fact there is a book called the rise and fall of the Aubrey Family.  My ancestors are such failures that an entire book was published. 😂  We had 14,000 acres in Virginia and lost it all. 

[mossy835]

thanks for posting great time and pictures.

[Huntly]

That looks fantastic, thank you for sharing! If you get a chance to visit Scotland when you visit the UK there are plenty of castles and distilleries surrounding me, I'd be happy to help show you around. 

[Minky]

Thanks very much for parking those images here.   Generally if you show holiday pictures to others, you often get a reply of...  BORING . Personally I love them. If the view of the countryside is out there, I want to see them and feel them.  When you Travel to wide wide country like this give an indication of how small and insignificant individual humans are. Two years ago we went to the small island of Tenerife and went on a coach trip to see the volcano Mount Teide.  Its not until you see and scale the size of the lava fields in comparison to a tour coach that is like a dot that you realise how insignificant we are and then how small that island is on the map. Thanks for the pictures.