I’ve driven more than 18,000km on our trip across the United States of America – that’s around 12,000 miles for those still resisting the metric system. We’ve crossed 22 states and my longest stint behind the wheel of our big van was an 11 hour marathon across Wyoming and Idaho. It gets pretty boring coasting […]
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more. Those words were written by one of my idols, Lord Byron, and they sang in […]
They say that “When in Rome, do as the Romans do.” So when we stayed with a friend in California who serves in the US Air Force, that meant firing a gun. Our style of travel is all about doing what the locals do after all. As an Australian I have a mixed relationship with […]
I’ve always wanted to go to Alcatraz. I’m the kind of person that likes the reality show America’s Hardest Prisons, mainly because I get to see a side of life that I’ve never (thankfully) been exposed to. Alcatraz was chosen as a prison because of its location – the island in the San Francisco Bay, […]
It was Yosemite National Park’s 123rd anniversary on Tuesday, the 1st of October – Google even had a doodle to celebrate it – but instead of marking this milestone the park was closed as part of the US government’s shutdown. The US government shutdown affects tourism All tourists inside the park were told to leave […]
