Life's about experiences. These are mine.
What’s more American than a night out listening to country and western music and eating a plate full of barbecue food? Not a lot and so tonight, in true American style, we drove the two minutes from our replacement hotel to Ebenezer’s Barn and Grill across the road to sample some of both. I’d booked …
DAY 10 – Springdale (Zion) to Bryce (84 miles driven, 5.34 miles walked) Today was a real day of ups and downs starting out at the Canyon overlook trail on the way out of Zion. This is a short but uneven walk to, as the name suggests, a viewpoint that has spectacular views of Zion …
DAY 9 – Springdale (Zion) (0 miles driven, 8.89 miles walked) It was a far more relaxed start to the day today as we weren’t travelling. This allowed us to ‘Facetime’ home (other video calling services are available). I remember the days when we would send home postcards and hope that they arrived home before …
DAY 8 – Las Vegas to Springdale (Zion) (167 miles driven, 5.72 miles walked) We left Vegas early this morning and to be honest I wasn’t sorry. I think that the issue for me this visit was that we simply tried to do too much in a short space of time. We didn’t give the …
DAY 7 – Barstow to Las Vegas (117 miles driven, 8.32 miles walked) When we arrived at our emergency hotel last night on the bedside table was a set of ear plugs. When a hotel provides you with complementary ear plugs that has got to be a red flag. However, we were pretty far from …
DAY 11 – Yosemite to Death Valley Barstow (351 miles driven, 3.15 miles walked) Today was due to be the second longest day of the trip in terms of distance covered. A total of 300 miles from Evergreen lodges, Yosemite to Death Valley. During this six hour trip the elevation changes from 9,000 ft to …
DAY 5 – Yosemite (0 miles driven, 10.97 miles walked) After the last few days of miserable drizzle and downpours it was nice to wake to dry weather and the prediciton of it being dry all day. It did somewhat remind me of the “Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh” song: Wait a minute, it’s stopped hailing …
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DAY 4 – South Lake Tahoe to Evergreen Yosemite (124 miles driven, 4.40 miles walked) It was another grey day in California when we awoke in South Lake Tahoe. This was a shame as we never really saw the lake in all its glory as it was constantly shrouded in cloud. Oh well another time. …
DAY 3 – San Francisco to South Lake Tahoe (188 miles driven, 3.12 miles walked) Getting a decent cup of tea in the US is something akin to the quest for the Holy Grail, therefore it was great to start the day today as Peet’s Coffee which made a very passable cupper. The concept of …
DAY 2 – San Francicso (0 miles driven, 10.99 miles walked) California has been struggling with the weather over the last few months suffering drought conditions and a number of fires. It was therefore somewhat ironic that today has been pretty wet. Not just a bit of drizzle but properly hammering it down. Some roads …
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