America

Final Day, we spent the whole day by the pool. I got sunburnt a little. Later on we went out to Gordon Ramsay’s restaurant in Caesars Palace. We got loads of photographs of the fountains from different places.                                   […]

I was feeling energetic so headed down to the fitness centre to go for a run, too hot outside. Today we were moving hotels and going to stay in the Belligio, which is famous for its fountains. While we waited for our room to be ready we had a huge breakfast, really good. Then we […]

We got bus passes to go up and down the strip today, right at the north, past the strip is Fremont Street (covered old town Las Vegas street), it was a massive let down. People had hyped it up, and we’d heard that the street performers were good, but it was  full of homeless and […]

Early start, we got picked up by Grand Adventures at 9am for the Grand Canyon Sunset tour. Headed to the most important stop of the morning, McDonalds for our breakfast. There were 8 of us in the mini bus and the driver Jordan. Next stop was the Hoover Dam, to a viewing point on the […]

We thought we’d split the strip up and stay around the south of it today. New York, New York, Luxor, MGM Grand, and Excalibur were the hotels around here. They are all massive, outside and in. They have theatres, casinos, restaurants, pools etc. We had a pizza at 800 degrees, the temperature outside 🙂 then worked our […]

Our flight to Las Vegas wasn’t until later on in the evening so we had some time after check out. We decided to head to Ocean Beach and try out the San Fran buses. It was $2.25 each and we travelled miles, good value, cheaper than getting the bus 5 miles into Leeds. We had […]

Early start today (after escaping Alkatraz, long swim) for a 10am walking tour around Chinatown. Lots of history here with people immigrating over the years. Back in the day, the Chinese couldn’t even own property, but it all got sorted out after an Earthquake knocked down most of the buildings. After the tour we walked […]

Wandered down towards the bay to see the Golden Gate Bridge. We walked through some expensive housing areas to get to the front. It was lovely along the sea front, just really windy. Headed towards the Bridge and got some good pictures. It was only built in 1933, which was quite surprising. We walked across […]

After an early breakfast, we got the hotel shuttle to the airport for 9:30. The Virgin America flight was fine, it had cool touch screens for ordering drinks before the trolley arrived. In San Francisco, we got the BART train to the centre and walked to the hotel, bit of a trek. It’s hilly here. […]

Had a ridiculously early checkout! Took the drive back towards Denver where we stopped off at a little town called Golden. It was a lovely little place, we walked along the river and had an ice cream. It was much warmer than Breckenridge, as we weren’t as high up. Headed to our accommodation for the […]

Not a lot happened today. It was freezing outside (I had to put my jeans on, which haven’t been worn since New York!) so we just walked into the town, which had a good bike path… it seemed to go on for miles into the mountains, and could be a future cycle tour, went to Starbucks, […]

It was my first proper drive in Colorado, mike looked like this. We stopped off 10miles outside of Glenwood Springs at Hanging Lake. This was classed as a 1 mile DIFFICULT hike, “take plenty of water”, “sturdy shoes only”, “no dogs”. It was a very steep 1,000ft climb and took us about an hour. After […]

It was forecast heavy rain today, so we planned to stay near the hotel and just potter about. First we went to a nearby retail park; I bought some sandals (cycling shoes), Lyns bought a t-shirt because the hot springs ones didn’t fit properly. We had a drive out to a town called New Castle […]

After a wholesome breakfast of waffles, muffin crumpets and scrambled egg we headed out to rent some bikes to follow a route into Glenwood Canyon. We were offered a shuttle ride out to then cycle back but we decided just to cycle both ways, it was only 31 miles (50km) there and back, which we […]

We had a few ideas on what to do today. After popping into the visitor centre, and a shop so Lyns could buy a hat we decided to do a walk. Boy Scout Trailhead was just down the road in Downtown Glenwood Springs, we headed straight off, heading up the mountain. There were views of […]

Second breakfast at the bicycle cafe. Then a long walk (on the hottest day yet) with our backpacks to the car hire rental place. We were given a chrysler 200 in blue, automatic, nice car, happy. Mike took to American driving like a duck to water. How to do a left turn, do 3 right […]

This was the first place we have stayed which didn’t have breakfast. But, that gave us a chance to go to Denver Bicycle Cafe for it, conveniently it was only about 10 minutes walk from the hotel. Brilliant place, a bike workshop and a cafe during the day, but a ‘beer cafe’ after 5pm! We’ll […]

Walked out of the air bnb flat and the bus was waiting for us, perfect timing, to get the train to the airport. Chicago is massive airport very busy and today we were flying with the equivalent of Ryanair of America, Spirit. One of the cabin crew was a bit of a joker saying it […]

Exciting start to the day by putting the washing on. Then heading out to a place to get breakfast called Toast and saw Oz Park (characters from the Wizard of Oz were statues), the whole area is called Lincoln Park and its really nice. After going back and sorting the washing we went to Lincoln Park […]

We had a chat with Roberto (Air bnb owner) over breakfast, it was nice, chatted about American and UK cultures. Caught the “L” train to downtown Chicago where we walked to Millenium Park to see the Bean. Beautiful area. Got some sandwiches and headed to the lake shore. It is just lovely, the contrast between […]

We got up early for the Megabus to Buffalo Airport, the bus stop was 5 minutes walk from where we were staying. There was a bit of a wait at the airport because the flight was only at 3pm (we got off the bus at 10) so we found a Starbucks and set up camp […]

This morning we slept in! After a few days of being up quite early due to the time difference, it would appear we have become accustomed. Met Mum and Aunty Joan and we headed straight to the Empire State Building.The weather was clear when we left, however in the queue we were warned that it was limited […]

We decided in the morning to go for a jog to Central Park, from the hotel we went across the Queensboro bridge which crosses the East River and also Roosevelt Island then on to Manhattan island. There was so much going on around us, cars, trains and even a cable car too. It was only […]

We started today by walking down The High Line. It is a disused railway line from the 20’s which is now a garden, 30ft above ground, stretching down the west side of Manhattan, with views over the Hudson river. From here, we took the Subway across to Brookyln. The complete opposite side; over the East […]

We have a good view of the New York skyline from our hotel room. It was the 5 boro bike tour today. It was brilliant, especially in the city, all of the roads were closed and 42,000 people went for a 40 mile cycle, unfortunately they had ran out of tandem bikes, so we just went […]

Taxi arrived on time, we got into Leeds early and the conductor let us get on an earlier train, he couldn’t not as the train was empty, we had a carriage to ourselves. I got a tea; Mike didn’t get a coffee, although he wanted one. Airport, bag drop smoothly and priority lane through security […]

Over the next 28 days we are going to travel a total of 12,000 miles (average speed of 18 miles per hour), to see a bunch of places in the US!   Itinerary: New York: 30th – 5th Niagara Falls: 5th – 7th Chicago: 7th – 10th Denver: 10th – 12th Glenwood Springs: 12th – 16th Brackenridge: 16th […]