Blogs from North America - page 9490

We were supposed to go to Arches National Park today but there were huge forest fires that came across the highway so we had to take a detour that led us through a completely different state, not just a few highways. The drivers decided that Canyonlands National Park was a good alternative. We stopped off at two different locations in the park to see the canyons. They were beautiful. It looked a lot like the Grand Canyon. We were able to do a hike to an area called "Island in the Sky" and check out Upheaval Dome, which is hypothesized to be created by a meteorite that struck 60 million years ago. After the park, we headed to Moab for some dinner. It was still hot as hell so we found some where with air conditioning ... read more

Well this national park is really spectacular, the sight of the Grand Tetons is simply breathtaking. Staying in Mammouth Hot Springs we had a great base to explore all the major springs of this super volcano, it was quite something, ntilalthough this area stunk of all those natural gases! If you come here watch out for the Bisons, those animals are huge and I hear more dangerous than the bears! Bears, we were looking out for them but had no luck until our waiter in the lodge, this old cowboy guy who looked like he should have been either the local baddie in a western or the sheriff tipped us on a particular valley where all the bears are... he was only bloody right, five minutes down the road it was like jellystone NP, there were ... read more

From the land that gave us Bryan Adams!!!!... read more

Sunday 26th June - Zacatecas We catch our bus to Leon OK and make the connection with the Zacatecas bus. It is not a long trip and it is a beautiful afternoon. When booking the hostel I had given expected arrival as 6pm. We walked through the doorway of the Hostal Villa Colonial at 6, to be greeted with 'Ah, the English, punctual as ever' from Ernesto the manager. He was very friendly and had an excellent command of English. We settled in and met John, a retired ex-pat who spends quite a lot of his time in Mexico, but also Florida and other places. He showed us the town centre (stone's throw from the hostel) and left us to find somewhere to eat. Maybe because it was Sunday, we found very few places open and ... read more

I've now arrived at the New York hostel, after an epic 17 hour journey, to find my road trip compadres are all missing presumed lost! Unless they turn up soon I'm going to have to brave the dodgy looking pizza restaurant over the road alone. New York is exactly how you'd expect. Yellow cabs, apartment buildings with fire escapes bolted on the side, fat people... I expected this but I am still surprised at just how familiar it all feels - as if I've lived here half my life. Tomorrow the sight-seeing begins in earnest.... read more