We’ve spent the last couple of days in an area called Revelstoke, adjacent to two different National Parks – Mount Revelstoke NP and Glacier NP. It was a couple of hours drive from Vernon where we’d been staying before, but lots to do here in a short visit. On the day we arrived we checked in to our Airbnb a bit early around lunch time, and then headed out to Mount Revelstoke which is right near town. In the summer…
We’ve spent the last 2 days of our trip in a small town called Merritt which we used as a base to break up the long travel distances as we move across Western Canada. We were originally attracted to Merritt because it is promoted as the “country music capital of Canada”, although to be honest, there’s very little sign of that at all! They do have an annual country music festival, but that’s in August, and some murals of country…
This post comes very soon after our last post from Day 3 in Vancouver, so if you missed that you can find it here. Today we left Vancouver after a busy 3 days around the city to move on to our next destination which is Whistler, up in the mountains. On the drive there we stopped at various different places which were along the route. We made a quick stop by the ‘Murdo Frazer cabin’ which probably won’t mean much…
Ouch, my legs….only kidding, although it was a very tough uphill climb the day before at the Grouse Grind, we decided it would be a “good” idea to go on another long walk around Vancouver city yesterday on our last day there. We caught the Sky Train in to town and started by visiting the VanDusen Botanical Gardens, a really nice area to wander around a little outside of the downtown area. They had loads of different areas to wander…
Hi everyone, the blog is back! đ We’ve just set off on our long 2 month trip around Canada and flew in to Vancouver on Monday. The airports at both ends were easy and quiet which was nice, and the flight was on time and “modest” at around 9hr30. After waking up quite early due to the jet lag, we spent the first full day in Vancouver doing a lot of walking around the city. We are staying in an…
We’ve had 4 days in L.A. now since landing back on the mainland, and it’s been pretty busy. We didn’t do much on our first day other than wake up late because we were now 3 hours ahead of Hawaiian time, pick up our rental car and then go to do a bit of shopping since the weather was pretty rubbish. Griffith Observatory and Philippe’s The crappy weather continued in to our second day, as it was pretty rainy and…
We did this at the end of our National Parks leg of our trip and we thought it might be fun to do the same now that we’ve finished our Hawaii leg too. We have each done a round-up of our highlights without conferring, and based on a few different categories which are below. Si’s Picks Best island Iâm going to go with Maui for the best island, which was the fourth and final island we visited. This was the…
We set off quite early at around 7.30am this morning to drive the 1hr30 to the top of Haleakala, the extinct volcano that forms the vast majority of the island of Maui. This felt like a bit of a return to our hiking days round the west coast National Parks in Utah and Arizona as by the time we’d reached the 10,023 foot summit, it was much colder, windier and wetter than it was down at sea level where we…
Sorry for the lack of blog posts the last few days, we’ve had a couple of long days visiting the East coast of the Big Island, which is about 2 hours drive or so away from where we are staying on the West coast. This island definitely feels a lot bigger than the others we’ve been to before! Volcanoes National Park On Sunday we set off early at about 6.30am to get over to the East coast to visit the…
Over the last few days we’ve had a real mix of long, difficult hiking and chill out time by the pool or at happy hour. Ha’ena State Park and HanakÄpÄ«âai Waterfall On Sunday we went to Ha’ena state park which is on the North shore of the island, and requires you to get a shuttle bus from a park and ride area just to get there. Because the shuttle is booked in advance and it’s a very popular place to…