Driving the Blue Ridge They call the Blue Ridge Parkway “America’s Favourite Drive”, so as devoted road trippers there was no way we were spending time in the part of the country without experiencing at least some of it. It meanders along the Appalachians for over 450 miles and is…
We set out this morning to cross the state of South Carolina. It was already steamy hot when we left so we were looking forward to some cooler weather up in the Appalachians. However we had an important stop along the way – Congaree National Park. Our 35th National Park!…
Saturday Following in the footsteps of Rhett Butler, today we’re heading to a place of peace, charm and grace! Today was one of our longer drives, over 5 hours, but the destination was Charleston, South Carolina, somewhere I was very keen to viist. If you know your “Gone with the…
From Williamsburg our next destination was the Outer Banks of North Carolina. ( North Carolina was the first “new” state for this trip, taking us up to our 43rd State of the Union!) The Outer Banks (frequently abbreviated OBX) are a 200 mile string of barrier islands and spits off…
The big ticket item for today was a visit to Colonial Williamsburg. Williamsburg was founded as the capital of the Virginia Colony in 1699. The young city grew quickly into the center of political, religious, economic, and social life in Virginia. With the establishment of the Willam and Mary college, Williamsburg…
Thank goodness for a better nights sleep last night, mostly due to exhaustion but I’ll take whatever I can get! Despite the better sleep we were still up pretty early and tucking into our continental breakfast by 7.30am. It was already warm when we hit the road and drove south…
When we left the USA in 2019 we fully expected to be back a year later to continue our 50 States bucket list…. but then, you know what happened … who could have expected a global pandemic. We were pretty lucky when the travel restrictions hit with the onset of…
Thursday It was only an hours drive from the Adelaide river into the centre of Darwin. I’d booked us into the Adina Darwin Waterfront Apartment Hotel, which is located in the middle of the extensive ‘Darwin Waterfront” precinct. This area is lovely, somewhat similar in style to Darling Harbour in…
Wednesday We woke to another beautiful day looking out into the canopy from our treetop bedroom. Another BBQ brekky before we packed up and left the Hideaway behind at around 9 am. We wanted to see one more nearby waterhole before leaving Litchfield, it was only a few minutes drive…
Every trip has it’s hiccups… and hopefully we’ve now had ours….. Everything started well as we left Uluru… Sunday Back on the road again! After saying goodbye ot the others we packed up and checked out and filled the bus with diesel before heading out on the long road back…
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…
