Day 848
2006
Australia
...30th Mar
Malaysia
30th Mar > 15th April
USA
15th April > 12th July
Canada
June?
England
12th > 14th July
Contiki
Europe
Begins!
France
14th > 19th July
Monaco
18th July
Italy
20th > 24th &
29th > 31st July
Vatican City
22nd July
Greece
25th > 28th July
Austria
1st > 3rd Aug
Czech Republic
3rd > 5th Aug
Germany
26th > 27th July
5th Aug
Switzerland
6th > 8th Aug
Netherlands
9th > 11th Aug
Huntsville, Utah
[
Photo Journal - 24 entries]
After our car-less week at Venice Beach (the USA has very, very ordinary public transport), we are now amongst the beautiful snow mountains here at Huntsville, Utah with our good mate
Nige (who is out here studying secondary school teaching at
Weber State University).
We have now officially met
Mormons (60% of Utah is religiously mormon) & country folk (just about everyone here has a moustache!). As expected, everything is bigger here in the states - WalMart the American superstore sells absolutely everything you can think of and is cheaper than anywhere else. Imagine Bunnings combined with Target combined with Safeway combined with Myer.
Yesterday, we purchased a car - yes, you guessed it, a
Pickup! Probably 90% of people in Utah own a Pickup Truck and most of them are big enough to tow a house. Also, pretty much everyone in Ogden (where Nige's Uni is) is selling at least one of their vehicles and the state allows non-residents with a local address to get Insurance (unlike California where that was illegal) so we really came to the right place.
Luckily for us, we also just caught the end of the
snow season here (right now it's sunny and warm but apparently last week it was bucketing snow). Our last 4 days here, we have watched the snow melt from the
surrounding mountains.
Today we embark on a 12 day loop of San Francisco, Yosemite & Vegas. We plan on meeting up with Nige afterwards during his school break to go camping in Southern Utah & the Grand Canyon. Hope everyone back home is healthy and well =]
3 Comments:
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At 1/5/06 11:58 AM,
gailwoodhouse said...
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Hi Jason and Reen
Lovely to hear of your interesting news and commentary ...loved the photos ... maybe you
should think of publishing or writing for some travel magazine...It is has been a bit cold over here and I am about to get a flu injection today having had a really uncomfortable bout of asthma and nasty cold for past two weeks. Am currently sitting in La Trobe Room. Have been here once before but will definately be coming more frequently. My friend Warren ( the disabled gardener with a heart which is huge ) helped me to get a phamplet organised on his computer last weekend.. he had a bit of a cold too.. it is really good and so thrilling to have some help from someone who can use technology well. Hope your journey continues to be healthy safe and happy. Lots of love to you both.
Mum xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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At 1/5/06 12:09 PM,
gailwoodhouse said...
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PS I stayed at the youth hostel near the bridge in San Francisco as well as the one in the city. Neither were exactely luxurious the one near the bridge was old with atmosphere information and a great cafe run by an old Jewish guy and neat view of the bridge and the city one was closer to restaurants and a bit more modern but definately more sterile.
Look forward to your comments on Yosemite Grand Canyon there were two hostels at each of these places which were very welcoming.
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At 18/5/06 1:19 PM,
said...
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Hi
jason and irene
This is an excellent website
we can learn a lot from it how to
plan a trip ...may be you can consider to be a traveller advicer in future ..... good to see you happy...enjoy .... mum checking on this web see your photo very frequently ,and she is busy as always , family all well ....
we get two set of free phone set
last week, luci is coming a few weeks time ....safe trip and look after
dad
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