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Days 5 and 6: Canyonlands and Arches national parks
P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; } Next day, we took off and, in improving weather, continued on the scenic highway to its end, with the great wall of the San Rafael Reef on our left, until we met...
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Days 7 and 8: Monument Valley
P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; } Leaving Moab bright and early next morning, we drove through young pine forests mostly on back roads, taking in the Natural Bridges national monument, and continued...
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Day 9: Lake Powell
P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; } Glen Canyon Dam is an engineering triumph of the 1950s, which flooded the Colorado river valley and some of its tributaries, forming a hugely popular water recreation...
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Days 10 and 11: Grand Canyon
P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; } So, moving on again towards the final sections of our trip, we approached the Grand Canyon, via an interesting old trading post by a rickety suspension bridge at...
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Days 12 and 13: Sedona and home
P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; }P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; } On to our final two night stop, at Sedona. South of Flagstaff the road descends into a deep and heavily wooded gorge. For the first time on...
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Pacific NW 1: Washington north shore
A stunning start to our tour of the Pacific north west as we took a swing around Olympic National Park, in record breaking weather, like a good, clear summer day. We had been expecting dank and...
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Pacific NW 2: Olympic national park
P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; }So we had to say goodbye to the Sunset Marine Resort and the friendly ladies that own and run it, and continue our trip along the north coast. We passed Crescent Lake, its...
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Pacific NW 3: Oregon coast
P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; } We stayed for 2 nights at the Inn at Cannon Beach, and enjoyed long coastal walks. Though we seemed to have brought Sequim's blue hole along the trip with us so far, the...
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Pacific NW 4 - wine and waterfalls
P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; } To wine country, and McMinville (Mac to its residents) at one end of the Willamette Valley, a major part of Oregon's rapidly expanding wine industry. The town has a...
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Pacific NW 5 - Mount Rainier
P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; } We continued towards our last destination in the US, eastwards along the Columbia, passing the eccentric mansion and model Stonehenge at Maryhill, then striking north...
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A lot more pictures here:https://www.flickr.com/photos/keithuk/albums/72157667483795391
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Pacific NW 6 - into Canada
P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; } Calgary. This must have been boom city after the railway arrived in the 1890s. The centre is full of substantial turn of the century banks and stores, many of fine design....
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Pacific NW 7 - bear country
P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; } Next stop Invermere, travelling north up the wide valley between the Rockies and the Purcell range. We passed Columbia Lake, the source of the great river that starts...
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Pacific NW 8 - emerald lake
P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; } Next, to Golden, where I had booked a rather spooky ski resort hotel, way up on the mountain miles from the town. When we arrived, there were no staff there, just written...
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Pacific NW 8 - emerald lake
P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; }Next, to Golden, where I had booked a rather spooky ski resort hotel, way up on the mountain miles from the town. When we arrived, there were no staff there, just written...
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Pacific NW 9: Revelstoke
P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; } Our favourite town on this leg turned out to be Revelstoke. The weather miraculously improved and we arrived there in brilliant afternoon sunshine. The Coast Hillcrest...
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Pacific NW 10 - Alpine meadows
So with some reluctance we left behind the charms of Revelstoke, continuing along the Trans Canada Highway through deep forested valleys and beside deeper, darker lakes, the road always playing...
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Pacific NW 11 - Jasper and Lake Louise
Now we started to turn east on our loop, over the mountains and back into Alberta, to Jasper National Park. We were leaving behind the remoter corners of BC and getting more into mainstream...
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Pacific NW 12 - Banff
So we were now nearing the end of our marvellous trip. Banff was a short drive from Lake Louise, and after all the wild open spaces it seemed a complete metropolis, with the tourist throngs...
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Ireland
Ian and I were on a tour of Ireland recently, crossing by try, via Gower in Wales, to Rosslare, and taking in Wexford, Cork, Kerry, Dingle and Connemara, then back via Dublin. Here is a link to photos...
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