We headed to Yosemite stopping off for lunch in yet another small nondescript town….that clearly felt it should be Swedish 🇸🇪. Piped Swedish music down the main street (think Heidi rather than Abba) and Swedish flags around the place 🤷. Having survived that we arrived in Yosemite valley. Having lost track of the days it…

Picking up where we left off in Santa Barbara, we had a lovely local coffee and then headed off to LA. We felt we needed to at least be able to say yes we have seen it. The plan was to see the Hollywood sign, the Beverley Hills sign, the La Brea tar pits and…

We arrived in La Quinta later in the day and crashed at our lovely Airbnb. Cooking our own meals at least half the time, and having more space, is proving really good 🙂. The following day temperatures had not dropped, in fact they went up peaking at 43 degrees 🥵, but we manfully ploughed on…

So here we are again. Apologies for our tardiness but we’ve been busy 🙂. We returned to the Grand Canyon and did indeed manage to walk down some way in to it. You cannot walk down to the Colorado (far too far and approximately 4500ft of descent/ascent) but we did manage to get 1300ft down…

Welcome back avid readers. Firstly, a correction 😯. I have inadvertently been using the word “trek” when in fact I should have said “hike” or “walk”. The email I received from the Royal Society of Proper Trekkers was most indignant! Moving on…. Bryce Canyon was our next stop. On the way we stopped at a…

So, Yellowstone 🤔. Firstly, it cannot be overstated how amazing, beautiful, and spectacular this wilderness is. The views are astonishing, the wildlife amazing and the trekking great. However, if Yellowstone is 3472 square miles, then it is 3272 square miles of wilderness and 200 square miles of concrete. The area around Old Faithful, being the…

Well where do we start? Since the last blog update we have seen some amazing things and travelled a very long way. We cannot include everything we have seen and done in this blog otherwise you’ll get very bored reading it, but we can pick out the highlights 🙂. We used our first, and only,…

Welcome back avid readers. So, you left us having reached our stop over at Amarillo. Nothing to report there, but when we left in the morning we visited the Cadillac Ranch. This was installed in the 1970s, on route 66. It is a series of Cadillacs buried nose first in the ground that people can…

We travelled from Fort Worth to Oklahoma City, aka OKC, visiting Wichita Wildlife Refuge (no, not the same Wichita as in the Glen Campbell song but close ) on the way. Unfortunately, the various trails were shut for hiking after 10am each day, as it was STILL really, really hot 🥵, but we did get…

We spent our last morning in San Antonio visiting another of the missions, San Jose. This mission has been rebuilt to provide an accurate representation of what it was like in 1720. We had a very knowledgeable guide and it was fascinating to understand how the missions worked, and why. We then spent the afternoon…