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Monday 30 June
This is a top pick! Monday 30th June We decided we needed a day off from driving so we booked in for another night. We had to move sites though but we didn't mind that. Once we had moved and re-settled ourselves we took the kids down to the lake for a swim. ...
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Maryland [8 Days and Counting]
This is a top pick! ... mom seems to think Colombian drug lords are going to kidnap me. When my dad was about my age, he hitchhiked across the United States. He made it through every one of the contiguous states except for two...I think one was Rhode Island and I've forgotten ...
Three Islands in a Couple of Weeks
This is a top pick! Ellen and I flew with Jim and Mary non-stop to Honolulu. The following morning we flew to Kauai, stayed at a nice semi-detached type place and did the craziest damn walk up mountain. An airplane was flying around way below where we stood, atop the ...
Just a geek at heart
This is a top pick! Days like this day are made to be remembered. So yeah, went to the 'Comic Con' at the convention center in down town San D. It was like a Star Trek convention running headlong in to a Marilyn Manson gig. There were freaks, weirdos, geeks, saddo's, ...
Turnaround
This is a top pick! How can I be feeling worse than yesterday again. If I have to have some kind of bug why couldn't I get one with some kind of consistency. Frustrating more than anything else and turning me into a bit of an anti-social troll not feeling like ...
Friday 11 July
This is a top pick! Friday 11th July We continued on through Iowa today, intent on finding a camp site early as it is now the weekend. We found Clear Lake State Park around lunch time and easily found a vacancy. It is getting very hard to find a spot on ...
Monday 7 July
This is a top pick! Monday 7th July We had met a lovely couple from Holland, Michigan while watching the evening parade at Disneyland in May. They had told us to visit this place if we could so that was what we did today! We drove along the I96 just to ...
El Segundo Barrio
This is a top pick! The area of the city that lies between the central downtown and the border itself is called El Segundo Barrio, a poor neighborhood that's quite Mexican in nature. We may want to locate here if we return here in the fall to live, which we think ...
Farmworkers' March Honors Cesar Chavez
This is a top pick! We were so impressed with yesterday's Farmworkers' Tour that we decided to join their march honoring Cesar Chavez today instead of touring Las Cruces, NM. This march made a few points: 1) to demand the U.S. government to return to the Braceros [Mexican ...
Holy Week in El Paso
This is a top pick! Palm Sunday Mass at Annunciation House was particularly touching. We had the largest group in our brief history helping there on Sundays: maybe about 25-30 people. Maybe because all participants receive palms, more people came than usual. The palms were ...
Recommended Reading
This is a top pick! ... war in Vietnam and Central America, to accompanying the homeless and displaced in Brazil, El Salvador, Mexico, Guatemala and the United States. Larry is a friend of our Ciudad Juarez Oblate priest friend Fr Peter (also a very unusual priest) [See my ...
Rainy Days, are we in the North West?
This is a top pick! So this was the first time we had packed up in the rain and it went just fine except we got wet. We kinda expected to drive out of the rain as all we have experienced on this trip is short showers of varying heaviness. This was more like UK rain where ...
Doh!!! ..............a year older
This is a top pick! Hello all. What have I been up to recently? Went to the Guggenheim Museum. Awesome looking building with crazy spiral design on the inside. Went and had a look around. Loads of famous stuff from artists like Van Gogh, Picasso, Degas, Munch, ...
Wednesday 7 May
This is a top pick! Wednesday 7 May Today we drove to LA - which was not an uneventful or easy undertaking. We got a little lost, got seriously stuck in a big traffic jam (1 hour to do 2 miles), drove thru Santa Barbara, Malibu and Hollywood (past Beverly Hills) ...
A shopping mall where you can also fly from
This is a top pick! These days airports are more like shopping malls. Have you ever missed your flight because it has taken so long to navigate your way through the stores to get to your gate? Have you ever been to this SkyMall? ...
NBA Jam
This is a top pick! If you get up early enough in Seattle you can be hit in the face by a dead fish. Failing to rise at the needed time I wandered round to Pike Place Market, where said fish go a flying between sellers, to take a look around what is called the 2nd ...
Bay Area Time
This is a top pick! SF is our final destination on our U.S. tour. The flight was smooth and it is easy to get into town with the BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit). We stayed at the Amsterdam hostel on Taylor and Bush. Pretty good location. The following day we wandered about ...
Wednesday 25 June
This is a top pick! Wednesday 25th June After breakfast as we were just about to head away I went round the right side of the van to put something in one of the outside lockers only to find a gaping hole where a vent cover should normally be ( external fridge vent ...
Where most the Naxi sacred texts are held
This is a top pick! There are some good points as well as bad points why sacred texts from ethnic groups should be held overseas. In the first place, these were often taken and collected during colonial times, when explorers and anthropologists viewed their ownership as ...
San Francisco
This is a top pick! This is one place that we both were looking forward to visiting for a long time. It certainly did not disappoint and we barely had time to scratch the surface. After arriving later in the afternoon we wasted no time in heading out to explore. ...
Portland
This is a top pick! So after about seven hours of driving we finally made it to Portland. We were not sure what to expect but were quite pleased with what we experienced. Portland isn't the prettiest of towns on the whole, but it makes up for it with its ...
Port Angeles, Hurricane Ridge, Sequim, Townsend
This is a top pick! I left the hostel in Port Angeles by 9AM and took a drive into a northern entrance of Olympic National Park to the summit of Hurricane Ridge. From there I had spectacular views of the Olympic Mountains. Even on the summit of Hurricane Ridge I ...
Wednesday 11 June
This is a top pick! Wednesday 11th June Steve biked down to the station which was only 1 mile to see what time the train left for Washington..... the last one had just gone! So plan B was to drive a bit closer towards the city and try to park at one of the ...
Before leaving
This is a top pick! Blessed greetings. I hope this works.... Just to let you know, I'm writing this from the west coast of Namibia. Forget about that for a moment and get into the trip: My stay in Asheville was excellent... just what i needed. Annie didn't give me too ...
Yellowstone!! Searching for Bears, Wolves & Moose!
This is a top pick! We awoke early freezing cold again! We got up early and headed for Yellowstone, the campsites are allocated the same as Glacier National Park, on a first come first served basis. They also don't have hook ups, hence the generator. ...
Saturday 31 May
This is a top pick! Saturday 31st May We woke at 5 am with the awful sound of Hail on the roof of the van. This was not a good sound. We all immediately jumped into action and through all loose things onto the floor while Steve ran outside and unplugged ...
Dan's Going Away Party
This is a top pick! Thank you everyone who came out Saturday night. It was very nice to see you and spend the evening visiting. I hope everyone can find this site easy and manageable. Enjoy the pictures. Thank you for all your love, prayers, and ...
Last details are coming into order!
This is a top pick! So, I've adjusted my itinerary and plans since I first starting dreaming of this trip, of course. I initially planned on seeing the Himalayas (India/Nepal/Tibet) then when I starting learning of Round the World tickets options, that seemed ...
Roadtripping
This is a top pick! I didn't expect anything out of today, but it was full of fun and entertainment. My only plan was to just backtrack and drive west a couple hours to reach a campground close to tomorrow's rafting trip. As I left the Grand Coulee Dam behind, I ...
Tuesday 5 August
This is a top pick! ... I have driven before, so we left Steve with the kids and us girls went off for a spin. It was my first drive in the States (on this trip). When we got back she decided she wanted to take it up a hill off the road. Well when she started turning ...