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…

On the second full day in Houston we headed out to Galveston. When we considered why, we couldn’t quite remember other than the famous Glen Campbell song and seeing it battered by hurricanes on the news over the years. Anyway, the north of the island is quite an historic place having been a harbour for…

Well avid readers, here we are again. Welcome to the stage 2 blog of Gem and Si’s travelling. This time we are in the west of the USA and Canada. When we got back to the UK in June, we wrote a list of the things we could do differently or better, in other words…