Well-rested and well-fed we left Richfield and had a great day cycling north; the sun shone and the wind didn’t blow too hard. We stopped for lunch at Yuba State Park and made it to Levan, UT and decided we’d ask around for somewhere to camp. We were just pulling up to a store when […]
There are a couple of aspects to the United States that completely blind sided Sophie and me when we started this journey. We knew, for example, that the the country is massive and that some of the states themselves were much bigger than England and some bigger than the whole UK. What we never understood […]
We woke up in Bryce after a fairly comfortable night’s sleep and my first thought was how good the meat had been at the lovely Texan’s BBQ the night before. We made our oatmeal (or porridge if you will) and headed back over to their camp as they’d invited us to have some breakfast too. […]
After leaving Sophie with the bags I headed further up Angel’s Landing, with the wind howling and Crocs on my feet I was feeling confident. Most of the hike there are chains to help you on your way but it was definitely a scramble in places to get up. There were a couple of hairy […]
We left Kanab early as we wanted to give ourselves the best chance against the probable wind, plus we’d heard Zion was very busy and we wanted to make sure we got a campsite. If we’d been driving we could have taken the Mount Carmel-Zion Tunnel making the journey to the campsite about 40 miles. […]
Weather plays an important role during the day. When we broke camp Saturday morning just off Highway 89 in the Navajo Reservation, Northern Arizona we had been rained on once, had two cold nights at the Grand Canyon and the only wind to write home about was an amazing tail wind that meant we sailed […]
The Grand Canyon is incredible. It’s mindblowingly huge and impossible to get your head around the scale and perspective. On the evening we arrived we wandered down to the Visitor Centre and watched the little orientation film, my favourite quote of which was that the American explorer Joseph Christmas Ives who came upon the canyon […]
So after the amazing lunch at Cracker Barrel Old Country Store and Restaurant in Kingman, Sophie and I headed North-East on Route 66 towards Seligman, Williams and further to the Grand Canyon. We had no set locations to camp but after the training we had in the desert with Mary and Dan we were feeling […]
As part of the blog we have been asking people to suggest places to see or visit. One such suggestion was a casino just off The Strip in Las Vegas called Ellis Island that had it’s own micro-brewery and a much less full on feel compared to some of the massive casinos. So after a […]
We left Ron’s in Quartz Hill early with a considerable tailwind and headed East into a desert landscape with the San Gabriel mountains to our right. We planned to get as far as we could before wild camping somewhere between Helendale and Barstow which would have been about 70 miles or so with the route […]
