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I wanted to do one more post on our recent US holiday taking a look at it in terms of some significant numbers. One number I won’t be concentrating on too closely is that of the pound to dollar rate which hit a virtual parity while we were away. Ouch! Miles driven: 3,277 We already …
DAY 22 – Park City to Salt Lake City (27 miles driven, 6.96 miles walked) Our flight back to the UK wasn’t until 21:10 this evening (I am writing this in the lounge as we wait for the flight) so we had a full day to kill. With Salt Lake City being only half an …
DAY 22 – Canyon Village, Yellowstone to Park City (384 miles driven, 2.56 miles walked) Tomorrow is the last day of the season in Yellowstone when all the food and lodging shuts down. The campgrounds and cabins are already closed and the places that were still open were clearly grearing up for the shut down. …
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DAY 21 – Canyon Village, Yellowstone (0 miles driven, 7.87 miles walked) America, what is the obsession with cinnamon and cheese (not together although there is bound to be a meal that has both)? Breakfast this morning was ordered from a school dinners type counter where one of the options was “French toast” along with …
DAY 20 – Jackson to Canyon Village, Yellowstone (116 miles driven, 5.64 miles walked) There were only two things that I thought I knew about about Yellowstone park. Firstly the geyser (prouounced guyzer or geezer?) Old Faithful and secondly that it is a massive volcano that’s overdue a blow*. I’m was hoping to experience the …
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DAY 19 – Jackson (0 miles driven, 6.79 miles walked) We’re staying in another cabin here in Jackson which is bijou if I’m being polite. However, it does have one downside and that is a light right outside of the cabin shining in making it difficult for me to sleep at night. I couldn’t find …
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DAY 18 – Vernal to Jackson (286 miles driven, 3.70 miles walked) It was another long drive today – five hours from Vernal, UT to Jackson, WY. We’d been told that the first and last segments of the drive were the most attractive. The first hour or so was following a winding road through tree …
DAY 17 – Moab to Vernal (217 miles driven, 2.49 miles walked) Breakfast has been included with a lot of the hotels we have stayed at on this trip which is userful when you are about to spend a full day in a park. As you can imagine the quality is variable running from a …
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DAY 16 – Moab (0 miles driven, 8.00 miles walked) Learning from our one hour wait in the queue yesterday afternoon we set off early in order to make our 9am timeslot. Of course today the queue was only five minutes or so and we got through half an hour early! Yesterday apparently lots of …
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DAY 15 – Monument Valley to Moab (150 miles driven, 5.49 miles walked) It had rained overnight and so sunrise over the mittens was a bit of a damp squib which was a shame but it is such a great view. Personally I felt that once you’d seen the mittens the rest of the park didn’t …
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