USA! USA! I lived in the US for a summer in 2008, working on a Christian camp in New Hampshire. Since then, I’ve visited 26 states, including the closest I’ve ever had to a “typical” holiday – Walt Disney World and Universal! My most recent visit was an epic month-long road trip in 2018 down the west coast and across to some of the best national parks in America.
My top 5:
⭐ Hiking Angel’s Landing In Zion National Park
⭐ Yosemite In A Day: All Of The Incredible Views
⭐ The Perfect Day(ish) In San Francisco
⭐ Hawaii On A Budget: How I Did It For $300
⭐ Antelope Canyon & Horseshoe Bend: The Gems Of Page, Arizona
Read the rest below! ↓
It’s National Park Week over in the USA – and with the exception of a couple of pretty awesome cities, the national parks are my absolute favourite thing about America. Sadly nobody can visit the national parks at the moment, but I wanted to do a round up of the ones I’ve been to – …
As an island girl who was raised on a farm and rarely visited anywhere larger than Aberdeen as a child, I’m not much of a city person. Things have clearly changed, given that I’ve lived in two cities in the past year, but still – give me a mountain or island any day, or even …
There’s nothing quite like ending a trip on a bang, so when I realised our cheapest way home from Vancouver was via the biggest hell hole in the world*, I started looking into other options. And being me, I came up with a crazy idea, which somehow worked out perfectly: a day in New York …
It has to be said that Seattle isn’t my favourite city – which is why it may come as a surprise that I am writing a THIRD blog post about it (though with a title like that, I’m sure you can understand why). One thing I do really like about Seattle is its neighbourhoods – …
We didn’t really have any plans between Yellowstone and Vancouver. It was mostly going to be a couple of days of just driving and stopping wherever we fancied. One place dropped onto my radar though, thanks to my friend Anirudh over at Beyond Our Horizons – the adorable little town of Leavenworth, not far outside …
You may remember that we very nearly didn’t make it to Yellowstone at all. Well, it almost happened again – when we were right outside. Considering we were now completely in off-season, we had hit lucky for almost all of our road trip, from missing a snow storm in the Canadian Rockies, to having absolutely …
We continued our trip north through Utah, passing through charming desert towns like Mexican Hat, and close to more canyons like the Canyonlands, as we meandered towards the unassuming Utah hotspot, Moab. Monument Valley had marked the end of our semi-organised schedule that we’d mostly kept to on the road trip so far, and now …
It’s been a while since I’ve done a photo post – but Utah is so full of photogenic spots that this one was always on the cards. Plus there are plenty of places we saw or passed that haven’t made it into other blog posts. Utah is one of my favourite US states. Sometimes I …
Monument Valley has always been one of my absolute favourite destinations in the US. When I was younger, I became enthralled by it when I saw a photo of it on a calendar in my best friend’s parents’ house (long before it became a default feature in Windows photo folders) and my brain whirred into …
It was pitch black, and we were cooking sausages on a broken barbeque and failing absolutely miserably when it happened. We were camping a few miles south of the Grand Canyon, our next stop on the Great American Road Trip, and the place was deserted save for a couple of parked up campervans. “Hey guys, …
