by Chris Steeden | Jul 24, 2014 | America, America 2014, By Mel & Chris, California, Featured, Motorbike road trip USA, National Parks
Leaving Yosemite at the 10,000 ft Tioga pass it was rapid descent to 5,000 ft with an equally proportional ascent in temperature. Yesterday we exited the Yosemite National Park through the west entrance, we passed over Tioga Pass which was 10,000 feet in elevation....
by Chris Steeden | Jul 23, 2014 | America, America 2014, By Mel & Chris, California, Featured, Motorbike road trip USA, National Parks
We departed Carmel, again in the cool weather, following the road north, with the the sand dunes shadowing us for a while, then we headed East. We followed the highway through lush agricultural land till the GPS ” Missy ” thought we needed to travel the backroads,...
by Chris Steeden | Jul 22, 2014 | America 2014, By Mel & Chris, California, Featured
“A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.” So wrote John Steinbeck, an author I first read as a teenage but for...
by Chris Steeden | Aug 27, 2009 | America 2009, By Mel & Chris, Favourites, Featured
Mel’s five favourites: ROADS: Going to The Sun Road – Glacier National Park Montana Beartooth Highway – North east entrance to Yellowstone The highways heading east and west out of Cody Wyoming Highway 2 from Spokane Washington to Glacier National Park Montana Needles...
by Chris Steeden | Aug 26, 2009 | America, America 2009, Featured, Washington State, Washington State
A bit of local knowledge brought us the surprise of our trip – about 60 Klms south of the Grand Coulee, something we had not found in any of our research – The Dry Falls. During the last Ice Age about 14,000 years ago a waterfall, the largest ever known – apparently...
Clairview, QueenslandIn Australia, By Mel & Chris, Caravan roadtrip, Queensland, Queensland
Gin Gin, Queensland – free camp / rest stopIn Australia, By Mel & Chris, Caravan roadtrip, Free Camping, Free Camping Queensland, Queensland
Yangie Bay, Coffin Bay National ParkIn Australia, By Mel & Chris, Caravan roadtrip, Featured, Free / budget camping, National Parks, South Australia