Viva Las Vegas

Leaving the Grand Canyon we had a very long three hundred mile drive to reach Las Vegas in Nevada. “Quite simply, it was huge and a very impressive sight!” We stocked up with water and snacks, turned the radio up, watched as the miles passed by and we eventually crossed into the state of Nevada. […]

The great Grand Canyon

After the glitz and glam of Los Angeles Rich and I only had two more destinations on our American adventure before our flight back home, seeing the grandure of the Grand Canyon and the craziness of Las Vegas! As we were flying home from Las Vegas we decided to head over to the south rim […]

Los Angeles in a day

Our sightseeing day in LA started off at what we expected to be the glitzy Hollywood Walk of Fame. Our expectations were somewhat out of kilter with reality though. Instead of glitz and glam we found ourselves on what seemed like a very normal street, with pavements that just happened to have the Hollywood Stars on […]

The Pacific Coast Highway

After a good nights sleep at the very lovely Monterey Hostel, Rich and I headed off the next day to cover over three hundred miles of the Pacific Coast Highway route, taking in the sights on our way to Los Angeles and our next hostel in Hollywood. It wasn’t the brightest of days for our […]

Views for miles in Yosemite

Rich and I were both extremely excited to visit Yosemite National Park based on everything we had heard so headed one hundred and forty miles east of San Fransisco to take in the sights for ourselves. To make the most of our day in the park we first drove to Groveland, based on the outskirts […]

Sightseeing in San Francisco

After a five hour flight from Hawaii with Alaska Airlines, we arrived into San Jose airport in the early evening. Our usual trick of taking the cheapest flight possible to our next destination meant that we then had an hour and a half car journey before we reached San Fransisco. For once though, we had […]

Culture in Kona

Sadly the time arrived for our last full day in Hawaii and to make sure we didn’t dwell on this fact, we planned another full day of sightseeing! We started the day at Pu’uhonua O Honaunau National Historic Park, a sacred site which preserves aspects of traditional Hawaiian life and is made up of archeological […]

The scenic route to Kona

Having immersed ourselves in Hawaii’s volcanoes for a couple of days, we left Hilo on the east of the island and drove up and around the coast, taking the well known ‘four mile scenic route’. “The trail itself, even in the rain, was very impressive as we were engulfed by lush green draping ferns and […]

Hiking in Hilo

After the delights of seeing and hearing a volcano at night, we headed out the following day with lots more volcanic adventure ahead of us. We started the day with a trip down Crater Rim Drive, an eleven mile road around the Kilauea Caldera in the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. Solidified lava can be seen for […]

Hawaii’s Volcanoes

Although leaving Waikiki was a sad morning for Rich and I, our flight from Oahu to Hawaii soon perked us up. This was due to three main factors really… The quintessential hawaiian island plane transfer – a tiny ten person plane with one seat either side of the aisle and only a curtain separating us […]