There are a lot more bears in Yosemite than there are giant sequoias – so they should be easier to find. Of course the bears can hide behind the giant sequoias in a way that the sequoias can’t hide behind the bears. I asked a very nice lady on the entrance to Yosemite where to…
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Yosemite – blog 20
I take back all I thought about Nevada – I like it! Even quieter roads than Utah, looks like the Flow Country, has clownish motels and has a few birds too. As I left Nevada, with a touch of sadness, but quite quickly as it was on a long downhill straight off the White Mountain…
Nevada – Blog 19
I didn’t want to come to Nevada but I’m staying two nights in the Clown Motel in Tonopah. There are clowns everywhere – in the motel office, on the doors, on the walls and, yes probably, as guests. All I knew about Nevada was that Las Vegas was in Nevada – a rather popular but…
Utah in three parts – Blog 18
Part 1: Arches National Park is a landscape feast. It has the red cliffs of Marble Canyon, the weathered sandstone of Badlands NP and the majesty of Sion NP all rolled into one. If you think I liked it, you’re wrong – I loved it. I visited it first late yesterday afternoon and stayed until…
Boundaries – blog 17
Hi! I’ve stopped calling these blogs ‘Day something’ because they are already getting out of synch! I’ve already told you twice, so this is time number three, that I crossed the Mississippi River two days ago. That marked a sort of boundary between east and west. Yesterday I passed another boundary, and another today. Today’s…
Loveliness on the Tall Grass Prairie – Day 16
I think yesterday was so lovely I didn’t have room to tell you all about it. Let’s backtrack just a bit. I crossed the Mississippi River, heading west. The river forms a notional boundary between the forest area (to the east) and the Great Plains (to the west). Obviously it’s not a hard and fast…
Kansas – Day 15
It’s been a long day – starting in Indiana a bit west of Indianapolis and ending in Kansas a bit west of Topeka. You can tell it was a long day when I say that the first words I heard were from the satnav saying ‘stay on the I70 for 200 miles’ which only got…
Mostly on the road – Day 14
It’s been a long day and I’ve covered a lot of miles. But I also met someone I have only previously ‘met’ on social media. Hope to see her again soon – at the Bird Fair, I hope. Let me take you back nearly, but not quite, two weeks to when I picked up this…
What a hoot – Day 13
The ospreys, herring gull, turnstone and swallows could have been in Scotland – even the brood of goosander ducklings and the distant great northern diver could have been Scotland, but these were common merganser ducklings and a common loon. And they were with hooded merganser, spotted sandpiper, ring-billed gull and purple martin so we were…
A memorable Memorial Day – Day 12
Today has been a holiday here in the USA just like back in the UK. Here it is Memorial Day where those who fell in battle are remembered. There are stars and stripes all over – and I like that. Remembrance Day in the UK, with its poppies, is moving, but the only time you…