It's that time of year when I'm starting to think about whether or not we'll get a holiday this year. BMC (before Mini Cheddar) we were lucky enough to do a lot of traveling and the other day I was thinking back to one of our amazing trips we did which was exactly 6 years ago. We planned the trip ourselves booking flights, our car and all our hotel stops ourselves and planning out our route - it was so much fun. It was something both of us had always longed to do. So, March 2005 we headed off ready for our long planned adventure...
to travel across
Route 66, the mother road, right across America in a convertible car.
The trip saw us stop for a few days with relatives in Washington DC first before getting a connecting flight to Chicago to pick up our car. Then, after a quick detour to Iowa to visit more relatives we headed down through Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California. We covered well over 3,000 miles in 16 days - it was incredible. We even threw in a quick detour into Nevada to visit the Hoover Dam and stayed in Las Vegas for a couple of nights (never again) and stopped off at the Grand Canyon. We also travelled down to San Diego after visiting L.A. and shoehorned a trip to Death Valley too.
We have so many fantastic memories, I still can't believe it was 6 years ago. What made the trip even more memorable was there was a random freak snow storm in Texas one day then it was boiling hot the next day! This is when my love affair with America started.
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| Never ending road |
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Oklahoma (oh dear)
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| Texas or The Arctic? |
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| New Mexico |
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Grand Canyon
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| Driving down The Strip in Las Vegas |
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| Kodak Theatre (Oscars), L.A. |
Can you tell I wasn't exactly into photography then?
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