Destination: USA

Back Home & Back to Sydney

Tue, 1 Aug 2017 | By misslynee | Views [780]

Well to say my trip home was great would be insulting to all the amazing people I got to see who made it so amazing.  My trip home started with a long flight from hell. I took melatonin for the first time because if a 15 hour plane ride doesn't ... Read more >

Tags: family, home

South Africa Suggestion

Tue, 1 Aug 2017 | By bombardo-family | Views [395]

We drove the garden route in South Africa.  During the drive we stopped at several National Parks.  Each park has its own entry fee.  However, they do offer a multiple park pass that might be worth looking at, it probably would have saved ... Read more >

Tags: national parks, south africa, wild card

Professional Bread Thief - The Monkey

Tue, 1 Aug 2017 | By bombardo-family | Views [441]

At our second game reserve, Kariega, there was a large lunch hall that was open to the outside. After we sat down and ordered our drinks, we were about to get up to go to the buffet -- all of sudden a vermin monkey come into the lodge’s eating ... Read more >

Tags: bread, kariega, monkey, thief

Kaleigh’s laugh at antelope play

Tue, 1 Aug 2017 | By bombardo-family | Views [420]

We have completed 8 seperate safari drives 4 at two different locations.  I will shorly post about them.  I wanted to get this little story our there first, because Elizabeth and I still laugh about it. If you know Kaleigh, our 7 year old, ... Read more >

Tags: antelope, funny, lalibela, mating, playing

North Cascade National Park

Mon, 31 Jul 2017 | By vagabonds3 | Views [228]

THE FORECAST FOR THE OLD MINING TOWN of Winthrop called for fair weather but they hadn’t taken the rash of forest fires into account.  (As I write this 3 weeks later, it is still fair and they are still burning.)  We spent the week at ... Read more >

The Great American Solar Eclipse of 2017 from Yellowstone

Mon, 31 Jul 2017 | By prasbiswas | Views [571]

On August 21, 2017 , Americans and Canadians will experience one of nature's most wondrous spectacle — a total eclipse of the Sun at mid-day. It is a scene of unimaginable beauty; the Moon completely blocks the Sun, daytime becomes a deep twilight, ... Read more >

Tags: american solar eclipse, aug 2017, totality, yellowstone

Photos: CA and OR coast

Sat, 29 Jul 2017 | By 1911sven | Photo Gallery

Into OR and leaving the coast

Sat, 29 Jul 2017 | By 1911sven | Views [436]

Sunday, July 16 We had a good breakfast at the Holiday Inn and continued driving N on hwy101. We stopped at the Redwood National Park to bike 20 miles. It was a crazy uphill through the redwoods, fast downhill to a small single track parralleling ... Read more >

Lesser-Known National Park Sites

Thu, 27 Jul 2017 | By vagabonds3 | Views [399]

NOTHING SEEMS TO BE NEARBY IN SE WASHINGTON.  We had to drive 150 miles from our camp in Richland to the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument near Kimberly OR — this was as near as we would be, Connie needed its stamp in her book and it ... Read more >

Almost Ready

Wed, 26 Jul 2017 | By little_bird_rs | Views [488] | Comments [1]

We're in the single digits now- less than a week. The only thing keeping me sane at this point is looking up pictures of my new home. It's a lot to process; this will be the first real move I've ever made. I've only ever lived within 20 minutes of my ... Read more >

Getting ready

Wed, 26 Jul 2017 | By tgjonesy | Views [280]

As I sit in the air on the first leg of my adventure, I am finally relaxing about this trip for the first time in 4 months. I guess that's when you know you've done your due diligence? I'm hoping. I fully expect to come home unscathed. I expect packing ... Read more >

Canadian Rockies

Wed, 26 Jul 2017 | By kansasfarmer | Views [277]

We booked our Canadian Rockies trip with Fresh Track.  Everyone there was so helpful and the details were worked out to the T.  They advised us to get travel insurance because we booked the trip a year in advance.  We chose World Nomads ... Read more >

Photos: Kung Fu and the Great Wall

Mon, 24 Jul 2017 | By sorkoo | Photo Gallery

Memphis welcome

Mon, 24 Jul 2017 | By nomad_kiwis | Views [679]

We were welcomed into Memphis with sunshine, a rainbow and storm clouds!  We had 2 storrn fronts of both sheet and forked lightning. We drove through the first which was pretty exciting, lightning hitting the fields on either side. One bolt was ... Read more >

DON'T PANIC!

Sun, 23 Jul 2017 | By nomad_kiwis | Views [728]

Whilst traveling I lost my phone. I had became aware of the fact when we were in the car. 5 of us traveling south in Iowa USA. First thought was where had I used it last. It was the motorcycle museum we had visited an hour or so back. I searched where ... Read more >