Three fun days with five fantastic friends! I must add thanks here to Steve and Greg for use of some of their photos. Day 1 The next few days were very much anticipated. Back in September last year Neil and I had been tossing around ideas for holidays, the dodgy…
Day 1 – Conquering the Rim Today was one of the days we’d really been looking forward to as we planned to hike the iconic Kings Canyon Rim walk. The official classification of the walk is Grade 4 – Moderate to Difficult and “The rim walk starts with a difficult…
Today was planned as the big “Scenic Drive” of the trip and it lived up to all our expectations. It started with an attempt to fix a minor hiccup – somehow I’d managed to leave behind my warmest jacket ( I’m really out of practise with packing) so after checking…
Well thanks to the COVID 19 Pandemic, 2020 was a bust for travel, but we’re determined to do our bit in 2021…so here we are in the Northern Territory for two weeks! A few years ago we had a short 3 night break at Uluru to see the Field of…
We enjoyed the “cooked to order” breakfast in the Embassy suites this monring. The breakfasts do vary a lot from hotel chain to chain, Holiday Inn Express have their cinnamon rollls, and the hanptons have a really nice selectio of fancy smoothies but the Embassy suites do cooked to order…
So today we went over 100 miles out of our way to see a big ball of string… We had some major things to look forward to today! In fact I think Neil had planned the trip around the first of our sites, as it had originally beenon his plans…
We stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night. The best thing about Holiday Inn Express? They ALL have the most amazing cinnamon rolls on the breakfast buffet. Yum! We had a mixed night, there was rain and odd noises in the room and some noisy people leaving their rooms…
Neil and I have a bit of a running joke about Nebraska, after we saw the black and white comedy/drama 2013 film of the same name. It’s a really odd but compellingly weird movie and it would either make you desperate to visit Nebraska…or fill you with dread at the…
We redeeed ourselves this morning! We were up before dawn and threw on some clothes so we could be at the Big badlands Overlook before sunrise. We had a while before the sun showed up as there was a band of low cloud on the hotizon, so the first shots…
Neil thinks we failed “National Parks 101” today, and with all our experience we had no excuse. We should have been up at dawn and making use of the best part of the day! He thinks we’re getting slack ( I think we’re just getting old!) because we slept in. …
We seem to be waking up ealier and earlier! It was around 6.30 that I woke this morning and I just knew I wasn’t going back to sleep – Neil said he’d heard at least 3 trains pass by during the night but I hadn’t heard any of them –…
I always enjoy it when we spend two ( or less often, three!) nights in one place on these road trips. It’s nice not to have to pack up and move on, to have a bit of a “rest” day. However, we rarely rest on our rest days! Today was…