I’d never visited the Southwest of the USA. How could I call myself a seasoned traveller, when San Francisco was nothing more to me than a pop-song, Los Angeles a crime series, the Grand Canyon a world wonder from my school-books and Las Vegas a backdrop for Elvis and Sinatra? Maybe allowing just two weeks was […]
During my recent Round the World trip, I needed to travel from Vancouver to Seattle for a connecting flight. I toyed with the idea of taking a Greyhound coach. Having read this book, I’m greatly relieved I opted instead for a hire car. Andrew Thompson, the author, and his girlfriend, Lucy, had purchased Greyhound 60 […]
I’d visited the Northeast, Southeast and Southwest of the USA, but Seattle and the Northwest were new to me. Stage 6 of my Round the World in 30 Days tour commenced with crossing the border between Vancouver and Seattle. This had been concerning me as I’d heard stories of long delays when ‘importing’ a car into the […]
Auckland to Vancouver was one of those strange flights where you set off in the evening and arrive in the morning of the same day. It might screw up your sleep patterns, but it feels quite good to have apparently gained time and it meant that I had an afternoon to start my exploration of Vancouver.
Grandma Needs a Four-Wheel Drive is sub-titled Adventure Travel for Seniors, and that indicates exactly what this book is all about. Two grandmas – one a writer, Janet Webb Farnsworth, and the other a photographer, Bernadette Heath – get themselves into many hazardous situations as they drive, hike, canoe and pony-trek up creeks and through […]
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Key West – Florida
by Elizabeth Player (A runner-up entry in the inaugural Travel Writing Competition) Returning to Key West in Florida after more than thirty years was a daunting prospect. Back in the seventies when the phrase ‘gap year’ hadn’t even been invented, I’d spent a few glorious months in that magical paradise. I’d been told by more than one […]