StefandCraig

San Francisco…what a beautiful city! Everywhere you look you can see something iconic and so obviously San Franciscan, like the Golden Gate bridge, Alcatraz out in the bay, the steeply-hilled streets, the apartments with big bay windows and fire escapes and cable cars. It’s all so cool! We had a late start on our first day in San Fran due to having to wait for our suitcases to arrive via courier. They arrived at about 11am, and then we walked down to the pier where we would catch a ferry across to Alcatraz. The walk involved climbing many of San Francisco’s infamous hills - my GOD, some of them were SO steep! It was very tiring! We walked past the “world’s most crookedest road” in Lombard Street and got some good photos. It was really cool ... read more

Well, Whistler certainly puts our measly snowfields to shame, as I knew it would. It was huge, and then there was Blackcomb mountain as well which was almost as big. And there was so much snow. It was interesting to see that it was a different type of snow to our snow back home - it was so powdery! We had four nights and three days in Whistler. We arrived on Thursday night, and Craig’s cousin Ash arrived on Friday morning to snowboard with us. He has been travelling around since October, and flew into Seattle from the Middle East. It was so lovely to spend some time with him, and I think he really enjoyed being around friends after travelling by himself for so long. (It was awesome to see Ash, really enjoyed the time ... read more

Alaska has been incredible. I’m so glad that we spent the money to get up here. We’ll definitely have to come back again at some stage in our lives. And in summer next time, to get some completely different views and to see some bears! While we had a great time in Anchorage, unfortunately there wasn’t a lot to do there. We’d anticipated doing some dog-sledding and snowmobiling, but whilst the weather was freezing there wasn’t enough snow to do those things yet. D’oh! (We did get to go dog-sledding in Fairbanks, which I’ll chat about later) The first day that we were in Anchorage, we just had a walk around and checked out the downtown area. There wasn’t a lot going on, so we just wandered in and out of shops. They had quite a ... read more

Hey everyone. I am writing this while waiting at the airport at Salt Lake City. We’re about to catch a flight to Seattle, unfortunately connecting through Denver. We only have a 40 minute layover in Denver so hopefully the first flight isn’t late! From Seattle we jump on a bus to Vancouver. We’re not flying directly to Vancouver because it’s very expensive with international taxes and such. So unfortunately it’s going to be a very long day of travelling! The train from Denver to Salt Lake City was amazing. It runs along the Colorado River through the Rocky Mountains and the scenery is just stunning. Every second that you look out of the window, there’s another postcard picture to take. Our sleeper car was fantastic, it’s so nice having privacy and having a bed to relax ... read more

What a time we’ve had in New Orleans! New Orleans is definitely in my top 5 of favourite places that we’ve visited. The city has this incredible life and spirit that I haven’t felt in any other place we’ve visited here. The people are so friendly. All this in spite of the awful things that they’ve been through. It’s an amazing place. The French Quarter is a beautiful spot to wander around. There are lovely old apartments that seem so typical of New Orleans, there are musicians and brass bands on every corner playing some of that old-time jazz, street performers everywhere and artists displaying their work (usually with Louisiana themes). One time when we walked through the French Quarter, there were two high school brass bands of at least 30 members each, duelling with each ... read more