Life's about experiences. These are mine.
After two full on days we decided that we would have a quieter day today by having a late start, breakfast out and a spot of shopping. Breakfast in the US to the Thompsons means Perkins and for me that can only mean the Tremendous Twelve! I don’t know why I hadn’t done this before …
Our drive along the 192 into the parks takes us past numerous eating establishments but at the very end there is a formal looking building with the words “Bob Evans” above the door. Initially I thought that it might be an estate agents or a realtor in the local parlance but a quick search identified …
Continue reading “USA ’18 – Day 3 – Not so Fast not so Furious”
One of the things that irks me somewhat about coming to the parks in Florida is the price of the parking, in fact that they should charge for parking at all. That’s right parking isn’t included in the price! When we first came it was $5 a day and you got a really nice souvenir …
So, here we go again, for another spin around the Walt Disney World parks in Florida. Yes, yes, yes I know we said that last time was THE last time and that we said that the time before too but we just couldn’t resist. This really is the last time… The flight was at a …
Continue reading “USA ’18 – Day 1 – Never Say Never Again”
This has been a while coming but finally I have managed to stitch together all the footage from the dashboard camera we took with us to the US (you can read more about the £20 camera here). Every day that we were in the car we took a short bit of footage to give an …
And so we reach the end of the road leaving San Diego this morning to head back to Los Angeles where we started almost three weeks ago. We had intended to spend today out on a boat in the San Diego bay whale and dolphin watching but we didn’t seem to be able to find …
For the most part we have stayed in hotels on this trip but our two nights in Joshua Tree have been a bit different as we have been in a B&B. It’s funny that we paid far more in some hotels than we have at the Desert Lily yet the place has been far nicer …
OK, so I am running out of superlatives now. I said yesterday that it was sad now that we have done all the “big ticket” items and we have really. Nobody is going to put Joshua Tree National Park above the Grand Canyon or Yosemite but they should and you really really should. It is …
Continue reading “USA ’17 – Day 17 – Joshua Tree National Park”
Today was probably the longest drive of the whole holiday travelling from Williams, Arizona to Joshua Tree, California. Helen and I both realised that even though we still have five-ish days of the holiday left with the Grand Canyon out the way all the “big ticket” destinations are now done (with apologies to the Joshua …
Continue reading “USA ’17 – Day 16 – On the Road to Joshua Tree”
There was one thing left that I had on my todo list before we left Las Vegas and that was to go to the Welcome to Las Vegas sign. We drove along the strip until we got to half a mile from the it when everything ground to a halt – everyone wanted to stop …
Continue reading “USA ’17 – Day 14 – Las Vegas, Hoover Dam & Williams, Arizona”