In the last two weeks we have hiked canyons, driven across the country, had a true southern welcome in SC and were reunited with friends in Albany.We completed the loop from Albany to Albany. Heading north from the Grand Canyon, we stumbled on Glen Canyon on the border or Arizona and Utah.There lies Lake Powell, the largest manmade lake in the US stretching 186 miles.We figured we'd experience the lake first hand by renting a ski boat…do either of us know ...

Heading north out of Mexico and straight on to Vegas should take about oh…14 hours?Well that's how long it took us after needing 2 hours to cross the border in which time we turned down about a dozen offers to clean our car from Mexican bums and then being "selected" for secondary inspection by border patrol.This drive did however include a brief sidetrack through Joshua Tree National Park where we caught an amazing sunset behind the funny looking...

Being so close to Mexico from San Diego, we thought we should probably make the trip across the border.So we started driving south, crossed the border with no security, well no security going IN to Mexico, and continued down Baja California.We had no clue as to where to go or what to see, but after driving through Tijuana we quickly realized that we didn't want to stay there.We had a leaflet for a hostel in a place called Erendira, 60 miles further south, that wa...

We thought we'd had enough of national parks on this trip.We thought they'd all be the same - until we arrived at Yosemite.It was hard to imagine a park in the US that would have a 3500 ft. shear drop without so much as a railing or warning sign; it was exactly what we were looking for.The night we arrived, we had an incredible introduction to what Yosemite had to offer.We watched as the sun set from Glacier Point and then stayed long enough to see the full moon ...

After a long couple of days driving from Vancouver, after a big night out (in which we saw Shane from the real desperate housewives, for those of you who follow it) we entered wine country in the valleys of central California.Sonoma was our valley of choice as Napa vineyards charge $30 a head for tastings (too rich for our blood).Seven vineyards and 50 tastings later, we headed back to camp where we sipped on a bottle of Viognier to complement our Caribbean Jerk ...