Saturday has arrived once again and transfer day begins. The final drive of our California road trip from Santa Barbara to Los Angeles Day 13 – An early start to get back to REI with our original YETI to make sure that the second YETI has a matching lid.. it does, we now own two …
After the excitement of the whale watching we headed south once more, inland as the Pacific Coast Highway was closed due to mud slides earlier this year just passed Big Sur (Highway 1 South of Monterey County Fully Closed From Mudslides – NBC Bay Area). Day 11 – Driving to Santa Barbara There isn’t much …
The wine train signaled our end in Napa and time to start our first proper drive across California to Monterey. You can read more on the thoughts of driving in America in this post Day 8 – Big Trees and a Pacific Sunset Having missed out on pre booked tickets to see the Sequoias at …
Heading to Napa and visiting some of the Vineyards had always been a key focus for our time in California. With time limited, we worked out that the best way to see Napa wineries and vineyards would be to take the Napa Valley Wine Train. The wine train was a very indulgent and wonderful experience. …
After a very hectic and full on 2 days in San Francisco, we headed 2 blocks from our hotel to pick up the rental car for the start of our California road trip. When we got to the rental place they offered us a very sensible Jeep 4×4 or.. a Dodge Challenger. You can guess …
Coming to the end of our California road trip I thought I would reminisce about our experiences driving in the USA Differences from the UK Starting with the obvious, you drive on the other side of the road. Only once did I try and get in the passenger side door of the car but you …
Scott McKenzie’s lyrics about life in the city and the hippie scene of the day. Neither Jen nor I put flowers in our hair but do think that those we met were some gentle people. Day 5 – 20th April (cont) We made it safely back to shore after our trip to Alcatraz and felt …
This post is my homage to one of the greatest 90s action movies… The Rock… Where Nicholas Cage and Sean Connery must save San Francisco by An incursion underwater to re-take an impregnable fortress held by an elite team of U.S. Marines, in possession of eighty-one hostages and fifteen guided rockets loaded with V.X. poison …
The first leg of our honeymoon is coming to an end. I’m writing this sat in the departure lounge in JFK Terminal 4 watching the planes take off as we wait for our flight to be called. (edit – I have also proofed and edited further whilst we are in San Francisco, sorry) Picking up …
16/4 – Day One – Travel and first day in New York Following our meal, some last minute packing and a night of anxious sleep, we awoke to our alarms at 5am on Sunday morning to get us from the Premier Inn to Heathrow T3 in time for check in. After years of living in …