Most of us probably have an image of the West that includes dry and dusty plains…and the sun beating down on the head of John Wayne etc etc. Well, that’s what I expected the West to be like… until today. We left Santa Fe under low cloud and grey skies…
Breakfast was lovely this morning. Our current hotel is a bit more upmarket than the last few and you really notice the difference in the breakfast. Even the bacon was good ( and that’s not something I’ve often said about American bacon!) Now that Neil has caught my cold we…
First stop for today was the Sandia Peak Tramway, a cable car the takes passengers from the outskirts of Albuquerque suburbs up to the heights of Sandia Peak, over 10,000 feet above sea level. We were fortunate to arrive just in time to leap on the cabin as the doors…
Last night we had a pleasant dinner at the hotel restaurant but as usual the servings were enormous! I’d love to have been able to finish my Southwestern Chicken ( spicy but delicious!) but there was just no way I could fit all that food in my stomach. Afterwards we…
We had better luck with our National Park today! Guadalupe Mountains National Park lies only 43 miles south west of Carlsbad Caverns and it’s a new one for us. We arrived at the first visitor area by 9.30, ready to hike a part of the McKittrick Canyon Trail. It was…
Today marks the 100th anniversary of the American National Parks system so it’s appropriate ( but totally coincidental!) that today we planned to visit Carlsbad National Park. But sometimes plans go awry… We slept in a little later than usual this morning, and didn’t leave the hotel till after 9.…
353 days ago I logged on the the Qantas website and blew an awful lot of Qantas Frequent Flyer points on 2 First Class tickets to Dallas, and I’d been keenly anticipating the flight ever since! As it turns out it was a real blessing as not only have I…
Breakfast at Morro Bay was a relaxed affair, looking out over the bay to that huge rock again. However, we didn’t linger as we had an important objective in mind today ( or at least, I did!) We were going to Disneyland! A little stop at Pismo Beach meant Neil…
Spending the night in the centre a major city after spending most of the month in isolated places was a bit of a shock! We had a disturbed night with some very riotous party animals making merry in the street outside our room and then bringing it inside before they…
I slept well… until the garbage truck arrived very early! Sausalito street Breakfast was definitely of the continental variety, just juice, apples, pastries and coffee but it filled the spot and fired us up for our day. Before we checked out we went for another short stroll around the streets…
Two days in one post with this one! Wednesday 16/9/2015 We woke to rain this morning in soggy Red Bluff. The breakfast was good though, I really do love those cinnamon rolls at the Holiday Inn! Our first stop for the day was the small town of Anderson just up…
We woke this morning just in time to catch a pretty sunrise peeking over the crater rim. The shot is not brilliant because we couldn’t remove the flyscreens from our window, but you get the picture. Just before 8.30 we left Rim Village at 0 degrees C (brrr!) and started…
