We were back on the road by about 9:45am. We continued up the western side of Scotland and given that we were making pretty good time decided to head over the pass to Applecross and then around the Wester Ross scenic coastal route. Unfortunately the top of the pass was enshrouded in cloud and rain…
We set off from home at about 11:45am. We stopped at Lancaster services for lunch and picked up a universal holder for our phones. They should be a bit more reliable than the old Samsung Galaxy S2 that I’ve been using to run CoPilot and more recently Google Navigation. Traffic was pretty clear until we…
We had an excellent breakfast at the B&B and then got on the road back though Keswick and down to Lodore falls. Next stop was Bowder Stone then a brief stop at Honnister slate mine before descending the pass. We had lunch at the Fish Inn at Buttermere and walked around the lake. We returned…
We left home at about 11am and immediately turned around to pick up the leftover vegetables that were left home alone in the fridge. We’d filled the new roof box and still had to have some stuff in the car. Traffic was a bit slow in places on the motorway. We stopped just before Tebay…
We managed to get some sleep despite the room shaking whenever a plane took off. We took the 7am shuttle bus to the airport and were checked in and through security with loads of time to spare for the 9:43am Delta flight to Atlanta. We left a bit late and so had just enough time…
We were up and out of the hotel promptly to head the five minutes down the road for our 9am helicopter flight. The short flight with Papillon was definitely worth the money and gave us a much better sense of the scale of the canyon. Back on the road and our next brief stop was…
We were up just after sunrise (the hotel alarm clock was 12 hours out!). However the view from the room was still pretty impressive. We had breakfast in the restaurant and had a quick look around the Navajo museum before hitting the road. For a lot of the journey along highway 160 we were beside…
We checked out of the Cactus Hill motel and grabbed a late breakfast at the Coffee and Candy Cafe in Torrey. Our next stop was in Hanksville to fill up with petrol (slightly more expensive than last time at $3.19 a gallon) and to get a sandwich for lunch. We stopped at Hog Wash picnic…
We had the few bits of food we bought yesterday for breakfast in our room. We then headed down to the Capitol Reef visitor centre. They advised against the Notom-Bullfrog road in an ordinary car so we stuck to the paved scenic drive and short stretch of unpaved road at the end along Capitol Gorge.…
We were up fairly late, checked out online and went to have a late breakfast in the Ruby’s Inn restaurant. We picked up a couple of sandwiches for lunch from the shop. It was cold and raining so we had a backup plan of visiting a museum in Boulder. However when we got to Calf…