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It was time to move on from North America. After 28 states, 1 District of Columbia, 2 Canadian Provinces, 106 days, 10,000+ miles (16,000 km) I had decided to fly out from Boston mostly because it seemed...

Sunday, April 17, 2016

Québec City, or simply Québec, was a place that I knew little about when planning this trip. I had a vague idea that it was not a typical North American city but not much else. A found a...

Sunday, March 20, 2016

I left Toronto with a new sense of purpose. The travel fatigue had worn off and with tickets to London booked I was now ready to make the most of the last few days in North America. I was driving to Montréal,...

Wednesday, February 24, 2016

I had hoped to catch up and finish the North American part of my blog over the Christmas break but ended up having no time at all! But here it is again finally. The next stop after Detroit was Mississauga,...

Friday, February 5, 2016

Detroit is a city that has had a lot of bad press recently. Between its well publicised bankruptcy, stories of a population exodus, and a gangster image fostered by Eminem and the 8 Mile movie, it's fair...

Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Chicago was to be our last destination together as a group. Both Hannah and Todd would be flying out from O'Hare airport and Peggy and Rez would be back to Bloomington to start their semester. We had three...

Sunday, December 6, 2015

I have already written this post once but a technical issue lost the whole thing so here is attempt two. Once again there are no photos as the camera still wasn't fixed. Todd, Hannah, and I had another...

Tuesday, November 24, 2015

There are no photos here due to my camera being out of action :( Todd and Hannah did though and I will update this later with some photos of theirs. For our first night without Peggy and Rez we stayed...

Tuesday, November 17, 2015

It was around about midday as we crossed the border in to Canada. There was really only one thing to do next; Go and see the falls! There were lots of subtle things that were different in Canada, the...

Thursday, November 12, 2015

We had a slow morning of Tuesday the 4th of August at our campsite just north of Boston. There was no great rush over the next few days. We knew we had to be in Niagara (Canada) by Friday the 7th of August....

Saturday, November 7, 2015

It's been a bit of a while since my last post but I've been busy trying to find a flat in London, but more on that later. We went to bed on our last night in New York City with alarms set for 5am. We...

Saturday, October 31, 2015

There's no easy way to cover our time in New York City. It is just too big and varied and diverse. We spent four days in NYC and covered a lot of ground. At the same time we barely scratched the surface....

Friday, October 16, 2015

There was no time for rest after our hectic and action packed day in Washington DC. We were due in New York City (well Jersey City but close enough) for the night and we had a lot of sites to see and miles...

Wednesday, October 7, 2015

The Blue Ridge Parkway is a scenic road that stretches 469 miles along the Blue Ridge Mountains. The route starts in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in South Carolina and ends at the Shenandoah...

Monday, September 21, 2015

Charleston was another place that we didn't really know much about when we were first planning our route. Once we had picked it as a destination however suddenly it was popping up everywhere. We kept seeing...

Wednesday, September 16, 2015

We left Montgomery at around midday and drove east towards Savannah and the Atlantic Ocean. It was a long but pleasant drive though rolling forest cut by rivers and small towns. Upon crossing the state...

Monday, September 14, 2015

We had rushed to pack the car before the storm hit and it wasn't long before the rain started to fall. We wanted to take a walk in a swamp before we left Louisiana and we had a found a small nature preserve...

Friday, September 4, 2015

This is a bit of a long post but I thought it would be better to include all of the time we spent in New Orleans in a single post. As I mentioned last time it was late at night when we arrived in New...

Saturday, August 29, 2015

Our next stop after Austin was Houston where we would be staying with Peggy and Todd's cousin. The drive from Austin was short and uneventful and we arrived just in time for a nice dinner. It was awesome...

Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Our first morning in Austin got off to a late start thanks to the 2.30am arrival the night before. We finally managed to get downtown around midday and wandered along 6th Street in search of breakfast....

Sunday, August 23, 2015

Our plan after Santa Fe was to visit Carlsbad Caverns National Park that afternoon and then drive to Austin, Texas the next day. Carlsbad Caverns are a series of huge caves that are accessible via an...

Thursday, August 20, 2015

I'm writing this post from a Starbucks south of Toronto, Canada. When I started writing this blog I just assumed that there would always be downtime to write posts and updates but that hasn't really been...

Saturday, August 8, 2015

Once again apologies for the lack of updates. I have hardly any downtime to write these posts and realistically I don’t think I’ll catch up any time soon! I'm posting this from New York City...

Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Once again I'm sorry that this is so delayed. There just hasn't been any down time! We woke up in the middle of the night after Yosemite (3rd July) to the sound of heavy rain and thunder. The lightening...

Sunday, July 19, 2015

We spent three nights (July 3rd to 5th) in Las Vegas but I'm going to cover them in one post. I'll also mention here that Vegas is hard to photograph. There are cars and people and telephone poles everywhere...

Sunday, July 19, 2015

Our next destination after Las Vegas was Zion National Park in Utah. Note that this is one of three posts for today so don't miss the other two below! We ended up leaving Las Vegas fairly late in the...

Sunday, July 19, 2015

Once again I've had no time to write anything in a few days but I'll do my best to catch up! Our next stop was Yosemite National Park where we planned to spend the day of the 2nd of June. Yosemite is...

Monday, July 13, 2015

This is just a quick update. I'm now back in San Francisco and have meet up with my friends (who I'll introduce later). We've been really busy getting all the boring stuff sorted and I haven't had much...

Tuesday, June 30, 2015

This post is shorter than normal as I've had hardly any time to write it. After spending the night at Sequoia National Park I took a very short drive north to Kings Canyon National Park. This park is...

Tuesday, June 30, 2015

My next destination after Joshua Tree National Park was Sequoia National Park. I was looking forward to a change of scenery after more than a week in the desert. I decided however that rather than head...

Saturday, June 27, 2015

Here's the highlights of my second day in Joshua Tree National Park. This was supposed to have been on Monday but was delayed until Tuesday due to the car troubles. Looking back towards Twentynine...

Wednesday, June 24, 2015

I'm writing this the day after from a hotel room in Twentynine Palms but more on that later. Note that this post covers parts of three days from the 20th until the 22nd. On my last night at the date (two...

Monday, June 22, 2015

First up, some photos from yesterday that didn't make it into the last post. An eerie smoky sun rise And the sunset Last night I watched Into the Wild, a film about a boy who abandons...

Saturday, June 20, 2015

An interesting geographical feature in the region where I am currently is the Salton Sea. The Salton Sea from space The sea lies in a depression called the Salton Sink, a wide valley formed by...

Friday, June 19, 2015

On Wednesday it was time to head out into the desert. Before I left we decided to check out one last spot in San Diego, a popular spot called Pacific Beach. It was a hot day and the beach was full of...

Friday, June 19, 2015

Today we went back to Balboa Park to see some of the other attractions there. Aside from the zoo, the park has gardens and plazas, as well as a whole bunch of museums and galleries. San Diego was settled...

Wednesday, June 17, 2015

One of San Diego's most famous attractions (apart from Sea World which is unethical) is the San Diego Zoo. The zoo is located in the middle of the huge Balboa park close to downtown San Diego and it too...

Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Once again I was hoping to get up and leave early and this time the plan worked. Being on the east side of the mountains meant that the fog had been kept at bay and I woke up to bright sunshine and warm...

Monday, June 15, 2015

It was foggy and cold in LA when I woke up. Not wanting to spend $18 on the hotel breakfast I went for a walk to see if I could find somewhere interesting. The city is so much bigger than it looks on the...

Monday, June 15, 2015

This post was written yesterday (Friday) but posted today (Saturday) due to lack of internet. I was hoping to leave early this morning but once again I woke up to fog and a damp tent. Rather than sit...

Saturday, June 13, 2015

This post was written on Thursday but posted today (Saturday) due to lack of internet. I woke up in my tent freezing cold this morning. The fog had come in and everything was damp. This was a bit annoying...

Saturday, June 13, 2015

Just some things that stood out to me about San Francisco Accommodation I stayed in the Hostelling International City Centre Hostel. The hostel itself was great. Every room had its own ensuite. The...

Thursday, June 11, 2015

I had been warned that I shouldn't try to leave early this morning otherwise I would get stuck in nasty traffic so I happily to the advice to heart and slept in. When I did get up my Airbnb host Matt made...

Thursday, June 11, 2015

After a week in the city it's time to head south. Today was the day that I had agreed to pick up the car so I caught the Caltrain down to Redwood City once again, this time carrying all of my gear. I handed...

Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Had things gone smoothly I would have left San Francisco this morning to go and pick up my car. However issues getting a hold of the required cash delayed my departure until tomorrow. After sorting out...

Tuesday, June 9, 2015

I finally got around to something that I'd been meaning to do since I got here which was to bike over the Golden Gate Bridge. I've done this once before, back in 2008, with the lasting memory being stuck...

Monday, June 8, 2015

Today's mission was go searching for cars. I'd had a tip that Redwood City south of San Francisco had a number of dealerships (thanks Mike and Claire!) so that's where I headed. To get there I first had...

Sunday, June 7, 2015

The plan for today was to start the process of getting a car. I found a good looking one on Craigslist and agreed to view it a 4PM. This left me with a bit of time to kill in the morning which I did by...

Saturday, June 6, 2015

Today's plan was to spend a bit less time walking than the last two days. I caught the bus out to Golden Gate Park and first visited the California Academy of Sciences . This features a large planetarium,...

Saturday, June 6, 2015