If you’re getting jealous tired of all the holiday posts, don’t worry, this is the last one! We spent our second last day of our holiday driving over the mountains from Santa Barbara in the Santa Ynez valley, which is a big but quite young wine-making region. It’s such a beautiful area – you drive…
We went whale watching off the coast of Santa Barbara And saw humpbacks and fin whales! And in my head the whole time was that clip from Finding Nemo where Dory thinks she can speak whale…
Our last few days in Santa Barbara were some of the best of the whole trip, partly because of the things we did, a lot because of the people we saw. And stupidly I have no photos of the people, which is such a shame. So you’ll have to imagine them… We stayed with my…
We spent two days in LA and were a bit underwhelmed by it. Maybe if we had been there with someone who lived there and loved it , we could have got a different impression but it was just big and busy and no real sense of communities at all. Despite that, we did go…
We decided to detour via the Hoover Dam on the way back to Vegas because a couple of American friends in Brussels had told us it was so amazing and huge. Only problem was I misread the map and took us on a detour through the Valley of Fire national park, and then down through…
I almost didn’t post this. The thing is, we didn’t realise just how cold it would be at the North Rim of the Gran Canyon. Yes, we knew they closed the road between October and mid-May, yes we were going there just one week after that road re-opened. But were we clever enough to figure…