Blogs from North America - page 29

Wisconsin Dells, a city in southern Wisconsin, lies on the Wisconsin River in a region of glacier-carved sandstone formations. Its numerous theme parks and entertainment centers include Noah's Ark Water Park, and Mt. Olympus Water and Theme Park. We camped at Mirror Lake State Park, a forested reserve surrounding the namesake lake, is known for nature trails and camping. The leaves were starting to change into beautiful red and orange colors. We took an afternoon and strolled the downtown area, stopping in many of the souvenir shops. Like so many tourist towns there were many t-shirt and fudge shops. We managed to resist the temptation of both. We took a morning boat ride through the Dells. We sat on the top deck and had a spectacular view of the sights! The boat stopped twice, first at ... read more

I wrote last week about the city, San Francisco, that many of us fell in love with during the 60s. Today, everything is much different, challenging, dangerous, filthy, politically divided, and in many areas, a quagmire. First some facts (from A Piece of Travel) to back me up: The rising cost of living and lack of new housing developments has led to an increase in the number of unhoused people on San Francisco’s streets. url=https://original.newsbreak.com/@b-rose-1684746/3040385423763-san-francisco-s-homeless-crisis-reaches-unprecedented-levels-in-may-2023-prompting-urgent-actionRampant drug use among the unhoused population is commonly blamed for the uptick in city-wide property damage and petty theft. As of 2022, San Francisco has the third-highest rate of homelessness in the nation, after Oakland and Los Angeles. According to the url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/s... read more

Nachdem wir die üblichen Highlights von Yellowstone besucht haben, geht es weiter in eine ziemlich abgelegene Ecke des Parks, nach Bechler. Hier gibt es einfach "nur" Gegend. Und hier möchten wir noch mal für 3 Tage mit unserem Zelt ins Backcountry. Praktischerweise können wir unsere gebuchten Campsites noch tauschen, so dass die Tagesetappen kürzer werden und wir außerdem eine der beliebtesten Sites bekommen: mit Zugang zu heißen Quellen - sehr willkommen zum Entspannen! Mit dem Wetter haben wir auch Glück: am ersten Tag regnet es zwar 1,5 Stunden, aber erst nachdem das Zelt steht - passend für ein Nachmittagsschläfchen. Die Nächte sind kalt, aber die Tage warm, und erst als wir am 3. Tag zurück sind, fängt es wieder an zu regnen. Weil es die nächsten beiden Tage überwiegend nass und ziemlich kalt ist, bleiben wir ... read more

Dear Blog Readers, So begins our babymoon! Normally we'd try and get away in November (such as Barbados last year!) but brought it forward and decided to jet off to sunny California! Bookings were late but we had a rough idea of where we wanted to head out so let's take you on the journey with us! Firstly, the flight to LA was lovely, getting to experience BA's Club Suite was delightful - a fully flat bed and decent grub soothed the jet lag woes! Once at LA's airport, we found ourselves to the Avis rental car place, which had a queue nearly as long as the security/immigration, and our expected Ford Focus turned out to be a Dodge Charger! Quickly getting used to the automatic gearing and sheer size of the car, we found our ... read more

Greenland It didn’t happen!! It was stormy before, but I had never experienced anything like this!! First they closed the observatory (later we learnt that part of the ceiling had fallen down and it wasn’t safe!!) then a large cabinet fell over in the dining room delaying our dinner. This was apart from the noisy, creaking ship, enormous bangs in the theatre where the waves were hitting, people falling over like packs of cards - one person we had breakfast with had her arm in a sling!!) rain pouring in underneath all the doors despite towels/blankets etc that had been put there!! (Humidifiers were going for about three days after!!) There were leaky cabins that we heard rumours that people had to change cabins and one couple on deck 10 had a metal ceiling tile fall ... read more