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...
by Chris Steeden | Aug 26, 2009 | America, America 2009, By Mel & Chris, Featured, South Dakota
Deadwood, a town which in the 1800s was known for its lawlessness, and was a frontier Gold town. Deadwood is now the resting place of Calamity Jane and Wild Bill Hickcock. A visit to the No 10 Saloon where Wild Bill Hickcock was shot is a must. We stayed in the...
by Chris Steeden | Aug 17, 2009 | America, America 2009, By Mel & Chris, Featured, Wyomimg
Well where to begin, we have been pretty busy and have not had very good wireless connectivity, It is Sunday morning and we are having a veg morning to catch up on emails, we apologize for not sending an email earlier, We reluctantly left Glacier National Park – the...
by Chris Steeden | Aug 16, 2009 | America, America 2009, By Mel & Chris, Featured, Minnesota, South Dakota
Three hours riding south we arrived in the twin cities of St Paul / Minnesota for a day’s visit including St Paul Harley Davidson from where we have bought a lot of our accessories and clothing via mail order. We also visited the Mall of America, Chris was in seventh...
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