Greg and Deb's Travel Blog

Today we leave our friends John and Georgiana, our travel buddies for the last 15 days. It’s been fun as usual exploring new parts of the USA with you and we will miss having you both around. I wonder where we will next meet. Continue reading →

We got away from Pinetop at 8am and headed for the Apache Trail. We called into Globe on the way to pick up lunch provisions and then headed to the Roosevelt Dam to start the trail. The Trail is 41.5 miles long, mostly dirt road. It is over 100 years old. Continue reading →

Today we went to visit Fort Apache. It was the iconic Fort at the centre of the Apache wars and the American wild west. I know it instantly conjures up images of the F-Troop fort with its wooden outer wall, sentry towers and big swinging wooden gates. Continue reading →

Day 41 Sedona Arizona Sunday 26 April 2015  USA Day 13

We woke this morning is sunny Sedona to more rain showers, but Georgie promises the rain will stop by 7! (Sorry an in joke 🙂  ) The rain stopped before we left. 🙂

We started our day with a walk around the tourist hub of Sedona. Yvette gave us a really good running commentary on the main local Indian Tribes, the Hopi and Apache Tribes, Continue reading →

Day 39 Las Vegas Nevada to Grand Canyon Arizona Friday 24 April 2015 USA Day 11

We checked out of Aria at 8:30am and made our way to the airport by taxi to pick-up the hire car J & G had arranged. We got to the car rental place they sorted the paperwork out and we were on the road by 9:10am. You have to hand it to Vegas, there were banks of slot/poker machines in the car rental terminal. Georgie told us that one time she was here they held up a plane while people were cashing in their winnings on the airport slots!! Continue reading →

A slow start to today, no rush, Vegas doesn’t shut! 
We started the day with a walk along the strip, down as far as New York New York. It’s massive, with the Manhattan skyline depicted in its various towers, the Statue of Liberty standing outside just passed the Brooklyn Bridge! Continue reading →

Day 36 Oakdale Minnesota
It’s SNOWING!!!!!!
I’m looking out the window a bit after 9am and I said to John, it’s raining, he looked out the window and said no, it’s snowing and went back to his paper! 🙂 I ran and told Deb and she quickly got out of bed. It’s not something we see every day, a nice albeit chilly, surprise. Continue reading →

Time for an easy start to our day. It took us a while to get going today, (Deb sends her deep appreciation to Telstra for the 5am text saying our plan had changed to EXACTLY AS IT WAS!!) hence we got away a little after 10:30am and headed to the Franconia Sculpture Park, in Schafer Minnesota.  Did I mention that it was bit “Minnesotan” brisk out this morning. I think the thermometer read 40F, and a good dose of wind chill, and it was mighty cold out there. Continue reading →

Happy Anniversary to my beautiful wife and travel buddy, I love you <3  🙂

Once we were up, my day started with a morning run. (Something I haven’t had the time for since Guayaquil). It was a bit cold out, around 5C with light drizzle, but my run was interesting. Continue reading →

A new day a new place, time to head out and explore a bit more. Today we join John and Georgie for a trip back to their home in Minneapolis, for a few days catching up with their family, and a big family it is. 🙂 It will be great to catch up with them all again and see how all the young ones have grown since we were last here, 6 years ago (surely it can’t be that long ago!!).

We left a very wet New Orleans Continue reading →