We left Yosemite and headed west through California and to the coast - to the super city of San Francisco. We still had a few hours before we handed our hire car back so we weaved our way through the city and drove right across that great big Golden Gate Bridge (a nice looking bridge it is too) and on into Muir woods. Muir woods is home to a very nice indeed collection of Giant Redwood trees - the tallest trees in the world. Giant Redwoods are taller than Sequoias but they aren’t as ‘big’ because Sequoias have a right big [View Full Entry]

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After the party time we had in Vegas we were ready to head off and do some nature - to have us a honeymoon. We assembled an elite squad for this early part of our honeymoon that consisted of the new Mr & Mrs T and the Freckleton based trio of Mum and Dad Thompson and Auntie Von - all in a ‘big’ mini van. We found our mini van in the car park of the Mirage casino - just like the chap said, a blue Chrysler Town & Country (ok so it‘s not a cool name for a car but [View Full Entry]

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Most of you will know that we got married a few weeks ago in Las Vegas - thanks very much to all of you who sent us kind messages - we were touched by them indeed. We didn't manage to do any more blogs during the USA secton of our trip because we struggled to find internet stations - so many apologies for not replying to your emails! The USA has pretty much moved on from the internet cafe and it's all WIFI zones now which is great if you have a laptop with you but not so great if not. [View Full Entry]

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Well we had a right good few days out there on the Inca Trail - super perfick it was - top weather, great guides (we never grew tired of our guide calling us his 'super mountain hikers') and a top banana group made for an uber good trek. Each day was pretty hard going what with being up high and with the heat and all that but the trail was excellent and the scenery was amazing pretty much all of the time. We were really well looked after on the trail too. Each day our super porters woke us up with [View Full Entry]

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We left La Paz (again) and headed up the road for half an hour to La Cumbre which is well high up at 4900m. From here we picked up an Inca trail that we followed (on foot) down through the Andes for the next three days (56km) - the Choro Trek. It's really good the Choro trek because over the three days you decend from way up high at La Cumbre right down to a low of 1400m at Chairo - which gave us a great variety of scenery i.e. we started up at the snow capped peaks (brrrrrr - twas [View Full Entry]

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We enjoyed some chill out time in Sucre, Bolivia's judicial capital. Bolivia is an incredibly cheap place to travel in - comparable to India and Vietnam - so we treated ourselves to a posh hotel for a few days. Sucre felt like a small town really, not too busy at all with lots of pleasant buildings - a good place to chill. On one day we went to have a look at some dinosaur footprints they have close by that have been jolly well preserved. They have a few different types of footprint but the biggest are 80cm across and belong [View Full Entry]

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Our final stop in Argentina was in the north western city of Salta - back into the Andes for us. Great big country Argentina - 8th biggest in the world, apparently just behind India - about 960million less peoples living there though! Salta is a good place to do outdoor pursuits and to party but we didn't do any of that because we had a cold each so we slowed our pace down and did some coughing and sneezing instead. On a Sunday afternoon we sat in a cafe with the locals and watched a couple of footy games whilst having [View Full Entry]

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We had a few fun filled non stop action packed crazy days in Buenos Aires. We'd barely landed there and we found ourselves in a transit van winding through the downdown streets of this hugemungous and exciting city. We arrived at our destination and were ushered into a building and up some stairs into a studio, ready to learn some new skills, we were ready to learn Tango! The lesson was great fun but we'd probably need a few more goes before we join the Halifax Tango display team... After our lesson we were seated for a steak and 'drink as [View Full Entry]

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We arrived in Santiago 5hrs before we´d even set off from Auckland which is pretty good going given that we were on a plane for 11hrs....! So now, for the moment, we´re 3hrs behind the UK instead of the 13 ahead that we were in NZ. Time travel is pretty tiring though and we've taken a wee while and some big sleeps to get ourselves sorted but we're on top of it now. We enjoyed Santiago, quite a pleasant city to walk around and lively of an evening. From there we travelled south for 11hrs on a bus to the Chilean [View Full Entry]

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As we write this blog not only are we half way around the world (geographically speaking) but we're also exactly 100 days into our 200 day trip - and as coincidence would have it we're heading back towards Halifax today as our ever eastwards direction of travel starts to bring us home! We left the delights of Napier on the east coast of the north island and headed into the mountainous interior by way of lake Taupo (the biggest lake in Australasia) finally arriving in Whakapapa. Our main reason in being there was to tackle New Zealands so called bestest one [View Full Entry]

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