Blogs from United States, North America - page 6836

This place has plenty of beautiful overlooks! This park is only 2 hours from home, and offers hours of never riding the same trail twice. Long, painful uphills are rewarded with minimum 10 min downhills--as dicey as you want to make it! I love singletrack where you're between mtn and air... and yet somehow you feel sqeezed ;) Douthat is a perfect weekend camping destination. On a hot summer trip, there is even a lake to cool off post-ride. Unfortunately, this particular trip was a short drive-by on our way home from visiting in Charlottesville, VA. You can tell because we are hardly sweating in these photos! Next time I'll have shots from the Middle Mtn overlooks which are even better! ... read more

A truly great event for people who love to look at old machinery and equipment. I saw a rare John Deere Car built by the great farm equipment company John Deere that sold at farm equipment dealership. I also observed an old one room school in operation. Corporal punishment and the school dunce were acted out. A unique demonstration of anvil shooting. Anvil shooting has a long tradition, beginning in colonial days in small settlements that didn't have a church bell or cannon. When the people needed to be called together the local blacksmith would shoot his anvil off and the people would hear it for miles around. One story dates anvil shooting back to the days of Davy Crockett, when anvils were shot in celebration of his election to Congress. ... read more

Hello Everyone Sorry it has taken so long to send out another update, but here it is, and after a few comments, I will make it shorter than the last..ok not really. When I last wrote we had arrived in San Diego to hang with our friends Forest and Erin. We had a great time and did some Geocaching in Balboa Park and visited the San Diego Art Museum. On Wednesday morning (September 21) we headed over to the Phoenix/Tempe area to meet up with our friends Michael and Zaida. In AZ we did a lot of hanging out with our friends, swimming, eating, went to a Diamond Backs baseball game where they renamed the stadium, and did a lot of relaxing. We visited a dueling piano bar name the Big Bang and had a great ... read more

I am home now, but for the sake of completion I'll add these blogs on. Internet access got very expensive from LA onwards so no chance to update. After leaving Texas, we flew to Albuquerque. Had an uncomfortable flight as we sat next to a fellow who was quite large and took up his square mile of space. When we landed, we picked up our car we took a left hand turn out of Albuquerque, unlike as infamously told by Bugs Bunny, and drove towards the Grand Canyon with a stop at a Hope Native American casino for some $2 blackjack. It's interesting going to a dry casino, no alcohol allowed seeing it's on native lands, so you get offered HEAPS of Pepsi. We made it about 1/2 way to the Grand Canyon that day as ... read more

We arrived in LA on Columbus day morning at 5.30am and took the 'Supershuttle' to our hostel in Hollywood. We saw the sunrise on the famous Hollywood sign on the way. On our first evening we walked along Hollywood Boulevard to the premiere of a new film called "North Country" at the famous Chinese Theatre. We hoped to see some stars and were not disappointed as both oscar-winner Charlize Theron and Leeds-armoury-advertising Sean Bean turned up! North Country Premiere The next day we went to Venice Beach, saw the (very small) "Muscle Beach" but no-one was working out (all the bodybuilders probably got scared when they saw Tim) and then walked along the 'Ocean Front Walk' to Santa Monica beach. We watched pelicans fishing in the the Pacific ocean, visited the famous pier and then headed ... read more