Trip: Round the Pacific
There are [72] stories from my trip: Round the Pacific
USA | Saturday, 5 Jul 2014 | Views [505]
Some of the original European artists to come out here painted pictures of the Western plains covered in bison (aka buffalo). At one time, there were millions of these large, woolly, front-loaded herbivores, but they came close to extinction following ... Read more >
Tags: bison, buffalo
USA | Saturday, 5 Jul 2014 | Views [511]
A moose is like an even more massive deer, I am talking HUGE! The males have wide, flat, branched antlers but the females don't seem to have any. They have long moosey faces. What I didn't know about moose is that they are water animals. They graze ... Read more >
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USA | Saturday, 5 Jul 2014 | Views [393]
Elk are like massive deer, and, at this time of the year, are growing back their antlers which are covered in velvet. They graze around in the trees and meadows. My favourite elk experience happened when we were out of a horse ride in the Rocky Mountains.... Read more >
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USA | Saturday, 5 Jul 2014 | Views [394]
One of the things I've enjoyed most about the States has been the number of animals we have come across every day. In the next blogs are my top five animal encounters of the mountainous parks...
Coming in at number five: marmots. These ... Read more >
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USA | Saturday, 5 Jul 2014 | Views [469]
As each State has its own number plate design (some have more than one, just to be confusing), one of the more geekier things we have been doing is collecting a photo of a plate for each State. Hawaii (a rainbow) was a highlight, and Wyoming's ... Read more >
Tags: license plates, number plates
USA | Tuesday, 1 Jul 2014 | Views [367]
Cody, in Wyoming, is the Wild West capital of the States. Citizens wear cowboy hats and boots; motorbikers wear leather chaps; spurs jingle down the street and the mode of travel is pick up truck or horse.
We had a great time watching a staged shoot ... Read more >
USA | Saturday, 28 Jun 2014 | Views [644]
Yellowstone is one of the world's largest, most active and most explosive volcanoes. It hasn't looked much like a volcano since the last huge explosion, 650,000 years ago, which blew out a huge area, covering a lot of the States with ash. Nowadays, ... Read more >
Tags: super-volcano, volcano, yellowstone
USA | Friday, 6 Jun 2014 | Views [571]
So, have you watched the film 127 hours? If so, you will have heard about slot canyons, which are narrow passageways carved through the rock by rivers. (We won't mention cutting tendons, yuk!) The walls on either side of a slot canyon are huge ... Read more >
Tags: canyoning, escalante
USA | Monday, 2 Jun 2014 | Views [336]
Bryce Canyon is another place where a plateau of limestone has been sculpted by water, this time into thousands of fantastic shapes called hoodoos which are like tall rock daggers, fins, walls. We heard the most "OMGs" here at Bryce as the hoodoos ... Read more >
Tags: bryce canyon, prairie dogs
USA | Thursday, 29 May 2014 | Views [595]
You make think I'm going a bit soft because I found Zion National Park to be quite spiritual and moving. Zion is a high rocky desert through which flows a river. Spectacular orange and gold mountains look down on the vividly green valley floor.... Read more >
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USA | Sunday, 25 May 2014 | Views [357]
It's big. It's very, very big. So huge you can't take in the scale. So deep and wide that it would take all day to just walk to the bottom. At first, it is astounding in its immensity. All you can do is stand on the edge ("The Rim") and gawp. And take ... Read more >
Tags: grand canyon
USA | Friday, 23 May 2014 | Views [315]
Wacky, fun, and unlike anywhere else we have been to, we both really enjoyed Vegas. Beautiful Bellagio with its glass blown flowers and fountain displays, Venice complete with gondolas on canals, Paris with the Eiffel Tower, and Treasure Island with ... Read more >
USA | Thursday, 22 May 2014 | Views [392]
Hot (hottest place on earth), low (282 feet below sea level) and very dry. And like everything in the States so far, it is B.I.G. Not much death though, which I guess is probably a good thing. Sand dunes, stripy rocks, canyons and salt flats. We ... Read more >
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USA | Wednesday, 21 May 2014 | Views [585]
Arriving in the States was a bit of a culture shock after South America - so many (big) cars, billboards, shops, fat people, fast food outlets, and no fruit or veg in sight. So why not ratchet up the culture shock stakes and drive out to Beverley ... Read more >
Tags: beverley hills, hollywood, los angeles
USA | Tuesday, 20 May 2014 | Photo Gallery
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COLOMBIA | Monday, 19 May 2014 | Views [1682]
Built by the Spanish mainly in C16th and C17th, Cartagena's old walled city is a beautiful, romantic place and one of our favourite towns in the world. The fortified walls were built to protect the citizens and their gold from raiding English pirates ... Read more >
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COLOMBIA | Sunday, 18 May 2014 | Views [1630]
Whilst on the north Caribbean coast of Colombia, we went to this national park where the steep- sided rainforest sweeps right down to meet the ocean. The Tayrona indigenous Indian people used to live in this area before the Spanish came in ... Read more >
Tags: tayrona
COLOMBIA | Sunday, 4 May 2014 | Views [616]
This place IS the lush green Colombia that we see in the films. Miles away from anywhere, we spent 6 hours on a bus to one town, having been delayed at three blockades by farmers' protests, then another 2 hours crammed in a jeep made for 10 ... Read more >
Tags: colombia, tierredentro, tombs
COLOMBIA | Thursday, 1 May 2014 | Views [540]
Colombia is lush and green, isn't it? Not in the Tatacoa Desert, trapped between two mountain ranges that shield it from rain. Instead of banana and palm trees - cactus plants. Instead of steep green mountains -red and grey carved sand sculptures. Instead ... Read more >
COLOMBIA | Wednesday, 30 Apr 2014 | Views [469]
Zipaquira is a lovely town with an old colonial plaza and an absolutely massive salt mine honeycombed under the hill. Part of the mine has been carved into an underground salt cathedral, one of only three in the world, and voted by Colombians as the ... Read more >
Tags: salt cathedral
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