USA Trip 2016 - Las Vegas

4 - 7 April 2016

Being in Las Vegas was like being in a movie or a cartoon. 

Loud, busy, hot, surreal and a bit ridiculous, but smaller than I imagined. 

I was surprised at how much I enjoyed Vegas.

The Grand Canyon is completely overwhelming and breathtaking.

"Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer." - Anonymous 

Walked the strip and saw inside the following hotels:

• Luxor
• Excalibur
• New York, New York
• Monte Carlo
• MGM
• The Mirage
• Bellagio
• Caesar's Palace
• Treasure Island
• Encore
• Wynn
• The Venetian
• Paris
• Flamingo

Things we saw and did: 

• Buca di Beppo in Excalibur
• Casino's
• The Hoover Dam
• Route 66 Stop
• Seligman town
• The South Rim of the Grand Canyon

Luxor

Excalibur

New York, New York

MGM

Bellagio & Caesar's Palace

Paris

Caesar's Palace

Encore

Wynn

The Venetian

The Hoover Dam

Route 66

South Rim of the Grand Canyon

USA Trip 2016 - San Francisco

28 March - 4 April 2016


When anyone asks me where my favourite spot in the USA is I always say

San Francisco and I'm not 100% sure why but I keep saying it...
It made me feel something, a sort of happiness
as if I had found what it was I was searching for out there.
I couldn't get enough of it's overwhelming beauty and fresh coastal air.
It is at the top of my list to return to.

"One day if I go to heaven, I'll look around and say,
"It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco." - Herb Caen

Things we saw and did:

• The Golden Gate Bridge
• Chestnut Street
• Ashoka Indian restaurant
• The Tipsy Big bar
• Chinatown
• Jack Kerouac Street
• City Lights Book store
• The Beat Museum
• The Coit Tower
• Transamerica Pyramid
• Port of San Francisco
• Ferry Building
• Bay Bridge
• Exploratorium
• Pier 33
• Pier 39
• Fisherman's Wharf
• Cable Car
• In N' Out Burger
• Lombard Street (Hairpin street)
• Lee Neighbourhood Theatre
• Alcatraz island
• Alcatraz Prison
• Tony Neapolitan Pizza
• Beer Hall
• City Hall
• Market Street
• Buena Vista Café
• The Palace of Fine Arts
• Cycle across the Golden Gate Bridge
• Sausalito 
• Hogwash pub
• Super Duper Burger
• Haight-Ashbury
• Amoeba Records
• Hippy Hill
• Mikkeller bar
• Hunger Games Exhibition
• The 7 Painted Ladies
• The Castro
• Climbed Twin Peaks
• Humphry & Slocombe icecream
• Toronado bar

The Golden Gate Bridge

Transamerica Pyramid

Port of San Fransico

Jack Kerouac Street

City Lights Book store

Pier 39 Sea lions  

Fisherman's Wharf

Cable Car

Lombard Street

Alcatraz Island

San Francisco from Alcatraz Island

Coit Tower

The Palace of Fine Arts

Dancing at the Golden Gate Bridge

The 7 Painted Ladies

View from atop Twin Peaks

USA Trip 2016 - Portland

24 - 28 March 2016

Keep Portland Weird!

We met nothing but kindness in Portland. Overwhelming genuine kindness.

An abundance of nature, art and books and

everyone following their creative dreams.

"I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list." - Susan Sontag

Things we saw and did:

• Por Que No? Taqueria
• Salt N Straw icecream
• Hop House
• Hawthorne Street
• Mount Tabor Park
• Voodoo Donuts
• Burnside
• Cargo shop
• Hair of the Dog micro-brewery
• Powell's City of Books
• Pearl District
• Fat Head's Brewery
• Keep Portland Weird sign
• Saturday Market
• Lan Su Chinese Garden
• Portlandia Statue
• Alphabet District
• Southland BBQ
• Columbia River Gorge
• Multnomah Falls
• Wahkeena Falls
• Vista House
• Women's Forum Viewpoint
• Sizzle Pie Pizza
• Ground Kontrol Arcade
• St. John's Bridge
• Forest Park

Keeping weird at the Keep Portland Weird sign

Voodoo Doughnut

Lan Su Chinese Garden

Portlandia Statue

Multnomah Falls

Columbia River Gorge

St. John's Bridge