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- USA Trip Days 14, 15 & 16 - Las Vegas & Homeward Bound
I’m currently in that weird place where it’s not quite bedtime where I started and it’s not quite getting up time where I’m going. Sleep, while definitely advisable from an overcoming jetlag point-of-view, is not forthcoming and the movies on this plane aren’t as good as on the way here (watched Hancock, but no opportunity [...]
- USA Trip Day 13 - The Grand Canyon
After losing yesterday to some kind of heatstroke/food poisoning combo, today was an early start for the Big Boy Pants. On joining our coach, we were struck by how ridiculously spoilt Americans are, as if living in a country with a low-paid, tip-hungry, top-notch service industry has made them incapable of coping with [...]
- USA Trip Day 11 - Death Valley
I think Death Valley is my favourite part of our trip so far. If the gradually more impressive landscapes are training nappies for the Big Boy Pants that is the Grand Canyon (we’re booked on a trip for Friday), then Death Valley is those Huggies that you can pull up and down.
Our room at Panamint [...]
- USA Trip Day 10 - The Tioga Road and the approach to Death Valley
We left Yosemite in the warmest temperatures we’d had since leaving San Francisco. This was a good thing because the Tioga Road, the only road that crosses the width of the park, closes over winter and had been closed on Friday due to the snow. The alternative route would have added 100 miles to our [...]
- USA Trip Day 9 - Hetch Hetchy
AWe took a trip up to the North-West corner of the park today, to the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir. The subject of much political wrangling in the early part of the 20th Century, the O’Shaughnessy Dam now stands across the mouth of the Tuolomne River and the reservoir provides water to San Francisco.
Hetch Hetchy is a [...]