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…
After an evening spent listening to the herd of elephants in the room above us I’ve decided I need to develop a new strategy on selecting hotel rooms – less emphasis on a pretty view and more on a quiet-room-on-the-top-floor-please! Overlooking theSawtooth Wilderness Fortunately the elephants settled down by 11…
When you travel a lot in the USA there are times when you just have to embrace quirky Americana…. Getting up close and personal with the Big Potato The first stop for today was only 30 minutes drive down the interstate at the town of Blackfoot, Idaho.Blackfoot is the (self-proclaimed)…
Our night sky photography session last night meant we had a later night than usual, but that didn’t stop Neil from jumping out of bed at 6.30 this morning. He had a sunrise on the mountains to capture! I decided that if you can’t beat ‘em you should join them,…
Another long one, 3 days in a row! Sunday, September 6 So 6 years after our first attempt, we finally drove the Beartooth! The sun was shining as we set off down the main street of Red Lodge, or at least, as we detoured around the main street as it’s…
A little variation to the plan today… We usually plan our holidays down to ( almost) the finest detail, however we do try to allow for a bit of flexibility. Our main aim over the next couple of days was to try to drive the beartooth Highway into ( or…
This will be a long one as I’m putting four days into one post! Tuesday 1/9/2015 Today we saw 4 seasons in one day! As we left Spokane the sun was shining but the air was cool. It’s not a huge city so it wasn’t long before we were out…
Bright sunshine and a nice warm day today, yay! It didn’t take long to leave the downtown of Walla Walla and find ourselves in the countryside. Stephen, our GPS, did its usual trick of taking us down obscure back roads though, and led us past such scenic points as the…
Cool and damp to warm and dry. That described both the weather and the landscape for us on today’s travels. We woke to persistent rain which was a little daunting as all the sightseeing planned for the first hour or two was outside! We decided to delay our start til…
We don’t seem to have a lot of luck with volcanoes! Last year in Hawaii we stayed in a crater view room overlooking the Kilauea volcano, most of the time we were there the crater was hidden behind thick fog. Yesterday, Mt Rainier, an extinct volcano, stayed “In” and didn’t…
