Alpine Motor Inn

... but sadly the glorious sunset views did not materialise as it decided to cloud over and rain!!  So we scuttled back to the Alpine Motor Inn and watched TV for a while.   Thursday 8th we checked out after breakfast in our room (there is no ...

... peaked roofs and detailed wooden shutters and trim.  It works perfectly with the mountainous backdrop and is topped off by Alpine Al, a wood carving of man blowing an alpenhorn right in the middle of Main St.  Another great thing about ...

... to pay the bill and say good bye to our host, for the night, Bruce and Julie Dickson. Our stay in the Lilac City Motor Inn was very enjoyable,  the room was roomy and very clean. The bed extremely comfortable and best of all no noise to interrupt ...

In case you didn't realise - Texas is BIG - so this was a long long drive.  But also a very interesting and scenic one, driving past some rolling hills, enormous wind farms, thousands of oil derricks, a massive high school football stadium in ...

I left the Rising Sun Motor Inn in Glacier National Park early the previous morning to drive to Helena – Montana's state capital.  Helena is an overnight stop on my way further south to West Yellowstone, which is a tourist town directly ...

... , then drove up a side road to the Hooker Valley (no hookers..) and did a couple of short walks. One to the Alpine memorial, a large brick construction, built to commemorate all those that had lost their lives in the area and covered in plaques. The other ...

... Milford Sound.   At the entrance to the Homer tunnel, we paused to take a closer look at a group of Keas - large, alpine parrots with startling green plumage - that seemed to have marked out the summit car par park as their territory. Apparently, ...

... we walked a 100 meters downs the trail, and were serenaded by about 100 of them.  Our hike took us the the alpine zone, and a nice informational trail at the top, with some superb views of the adjacent valleys and peaks.  After our descent we ...

... along the way and did several walks, including the Haast Pass lookout walk which was pretty much vertical but had fantastic views of alpine mountains covered in snow at the top - we crossed the snowline so we actually got to be in the snow and the first ...

... drove to Milford Sound and the drive was as wonderful as we had been led to believe. Incredible mountains, raging rivers, alpine forests and fields packed with beautiful flowers and other flora. If this wasn´t incredible enough when we arrive at Milford ...

... a contender for most eccentric campsite. Lake View Holiday Park was a little dated, but seemed to carry a Germanic Swiss theme. Alpine style lodges, all sorts of strange paraphernalia, we half expected the owner to be dressed in lederhosen or dirndl. ...

... , playing lively games of football down the middle of the outer town streets. Just past the houses are large flat moist alpine meadows grazed by cattle and goats and tended mostly by women in traditional Tajik dress. Tashkorgan is nestled in a stone ...

... these enormous mountains do not appear to be so high because you are already travelling at 3,000m. The countryside is an arid alpine plateau, without a tree in sight. And even though it was nearly summer, the pastures looked bleak and cold with little ...

... minute break to clear the tunnel it flows for 20 minutes in the opposite direction. The stop was above the snow line a large Alpine parrots called Keas come down to have their photos taken, they have no fear of humans and will destroy anything shiney if ...

... descent. We stop for much needed coffee and a pitstop at a little café that has a terrace with a fabulous view over a very alpine scene. Once again we are seeing a different face of Morocco. Then back to the bus for the final leg into Marrakech. ...