Maybe February was not the best time to take a short break in New York. Just a few days before I arrived, JFK Airport had been closed because of blizzard conditions, and the weather forecast was suggesting sub-zero temperatures for the whole three days of my visit! And that weather forecast turned out to be […]
STE’s Holiday Editor, Tony Taylor, reports on a tour in Mexico. In January/February we like to find somewhere warm for a holiday, and this year decided on Mexico. We had been to the west coast of Mexico about 20 years before, Puerto Vallarta – Costa del Sol for Americans! As we enjoy travelling and exploring […]
All good things must come to an end, and so it was with our Road Trip USA. After seeing some of the most spectacular scenery that the USA has to offer, plus some surprisingly interesting cities, it was now just a matter of driving the final couple of hundred miles or so from the Grand Canyon […]
After covering almost 3,000 miles, our Road Trip USA was now heading to the two scenic big ones: Monument Valley and the Grand Canyon. Heading north from Chinle on the 6,000 ft high Arizonan plateau, and then just over the border into Utah, led to the remarkably familiar Monument Valley. Familiar from all the films and adverts […]
Decision time! Would the weather permit us to head north to the 6,000 foot high plateau-lands of Northern Arizona and some of the greatest scenery in the world, or would we have to travel along the low route via Southern Arizona to Las Vegas, the final destination in our Road Trip USA? The North-Eastern states of the […]
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Road Trip USA – The Big Picture: Panoramic Photos
In the fifth of a series of articles on travel photography, Senior Travel Expert Photo Editor, John Esser, gives advice on how to get great panoramic photos, illustrated with pictures from his recent road trip in the USA. The prospect of spending almost a month travelling through some of the most spectacular scenery on the […]