On our second day in Grand Teton National Park we went to do some more hiking and started at a place Lucy was particularly keen to visit – Taggart Lake. It was a total 7.5 mile hike as we went on past Taggart Lake itself (photos above) to a second lake called Bradley Lake (photos below). There’s loads of these little forest rodents, which are either Golden-mantled Ground Squirrels or Least Chipmunks according to our guide, which always scurry around,…
Today (day 5) we moved on from our one night stop over in Rock Springs and moved onto a town called Victor which is where we will be staying for the next 4 nights as we explore our second National Park of the trip…Grand Teton NP. Fortunately unlike yesterday’s drive this one was a mere 3hr 20min, so short in comparison. As we got on the road we had to make one crucial stop before leaving Rock Springs and that…
On our third day in the Rocky Mountains we went back in to the park to do another hike, this time a steep uphill climb called Deer Mountain, around 6.4 miles there and back and about 1400 ft elevation gain to reach the peak at about 10,000 ft. We headed out early so we could get the walk done before it was busy and to get back home for lunch if possible. We didn’t pass many other hikers on route…
After a long travel day on Monday we finally arrived in the US, flying from Heathrow to Denver airport which took around 9 hours – looks like we just missed the chaos with air traffic control and loads of flight cancellations on Tue and Wed this week across the UK, so we were lucky! When we landed we had a pretty long drive to get to the town we’re staying in which is called Estes Park, and is right outside…
This will be the last post of our trip as we are flying home today, but here’s our personal highlights from the Eastern portion of the trip – following on from our Western highlights if you want to see those too. We had 9 stops in total and did so much, it was a bit hard to choose, but here you go. Lucy’s picks Best stop This was super tough to call as they’ve all been great, but for the…
We are now back in the US for the final part of our trip. We are staying in a small town called Richmond, in Vermont. For those of you following the blog this randomly will be the third time we have stayed in a town called Richmond on this trip, the first one being in Vancouver, and the second one being in Boston. Anyway, it was a fairly long drive from Quebec City, including a rather long queue at the…
On our final day in Quebec City we decided to rent some bikes from the Old Town area and cycle along one of the city’s many cycle paths, following the river up to some nearby water falls we had wanted to visit. It took us around an hour to cycle to Montmorency Falls on a pretty hot afternoon, but it was a pretty flat route and a good way to get around. The falls themselves were really impressive. We didn’t…
We are now in Quebec City, although it feels like we are in France such is the language the majority of people are speaking here – hence the blog post title which I thought I would translate into French for those who know French. It is very much what I imagine walking around the streets of Paris would be like such as cobbled streets, cafes with bright awnings and lots of quirky shops and galleries. Can you recognise what film the…
After a few days in Moncton, we broke up the long journey to Quebec City with a couple of nights stay in a place called Grand Falls. As the name suggests there is a large waterfalls here but as we arrived quite late in the afternoon we checked in at our motel (weird to not be in an Airbnb now!) and then headed out to a local pizza place for some food, before tracking down the only brewery in town….
After we left Halifax in Nova Scotia we headed inland and made our way to Moncton. The reason we chose this town was for its proximity to Kouchibouguac National Park which is about an hour away from Moncton. The drive was fine and the only thing of note was what we saw at one of the gas stations we stopped at, which was a ‘Bark Park’, a designated area for you to take your dogs, which made us think of…