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…
We woke to smoke here… and smoke at home too! The smokey haze was still hanging over the lake this morning when Neil checked his phone. A comment on Facebook from Owen had us scrambling to try to connect to the news websites, not so easy with our dodgy internet…
Ups and Downs and Ups today! Mt Bachelor is popular for skiing in the winter The drive out of Bend this morning was along the river and through the very attractive residential area along the river. I think I could live in Bend ( although I guess I’d need to…
This morning we set off westwards with a long way to go, today would be one of our longer driving days on the trip. The first 40 minutes took us from Boise to Nampa though largely urban scenery as the two cities blend together at the edges. Once we hit…
