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Finally—Heading south like we’re supposed to!

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  • North America
  • United States
Feb 21 2015
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When people enquire as to what we are doing as we aimlessly drive around the Americas we tend to respond with: ‘We’re driving from Alaska to Argentina’. Those in the know often respond with ‘Oh, so you are driving the PanAmerican Highway then?” To which we typically respond with a shifty sideways glance and say “more or less”. This shifty sideways glance is because either of these descriptions of our trip imply that we are travelling in a generally southerly direction. The second specifically implies we are actually following some sort of planned route. Most of the time, neither of […]

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Wolves at the door

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  • North America
  • United States
Feb 18 2015
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Sure, we only had a few days left on our US Visa, but it would have been poor form to leave without visiting Yellowstone National Park. So we took another detour.

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Go West

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  • North America
  • United States
Feb 15 2015
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By this point we were clearly not strangers to the Interstate Highways of the USA. We wished we were, because, let’s face it, they make for some dull driving. But they are also the most efficient way to get from A to B when A and B are a long way from each other. That being said, there is only so much driving on the interstate you can do before you go clinically insane. So this blog post is the tale of the detours we took in a fruitless attempt to maintain our sanity as we drove from east to west […]

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That time we drove to Canada when we were supposed to head for Mexico

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  • Canada
  • North America
  • United States
Feb 09 2015
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What is the shortest way from New York City to Tijuana? Well, aside from flying, it still probably isn’t via Canada. But that is way we went.

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A small bite of the Big Apple

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  • North America
  • United States
Feb 06 2015
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We made it to the East Coast and New York City was in our sights!

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Washington DC

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  • North America
  • United States
Feb 03 2015
Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC, at nightWorld War II Memorial, Washington DC, at nightWashington Monument at nightWashington Monument at nightSmithsonian's National Air and Space MuseumWashington DC at night

They let two Kiwis loose in the Nation’s Capital. I guess someone wasn’t paying attention:

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No sleep ’til Brooklyn

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  • North America
  • United States
Jan 31 2015
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There comes a time in two perfectly reasonable people’s lives when they decide that driving cross-country to New York is a sensible thing to do. “Now wait a minute” I hear you exclaim “Aren’t you driving to Argentina? That is quite a lot further away from Alaska than New York and therefore a slightly madder thing to do!” I’ll grant you that the plan of driving to Argentina does sound a little crazy, but ultimately it comes down to a question of timeframes. 

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Colorado is closed. Part 2.

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  • North America
  • United States
Jan 28 2015
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Closed campgrounds, closed roads, closed parks, closed mountains, closed shops. Seriously Colorado! What is open?

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Colorado is closed. Part 1.

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  • North America
  • United States
  • Vehicle
Jan 25 2015
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Having spent far too long faffing about in Utah and Nevada our time in Colorado was short. (That was about the only thing that was short in Colorado—everything else appeared to be of record-breaking height.) After visiting Dinosaur National Monument on the Utah side, we had been considering driving to Echo Park on the Colorado side of the park—but we were told that the road was closed. No surprise there, that had happened a lot lately.

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Utah. Definitely another planet.

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  • Beer
  • North America
  • United States
Jan 22 2015
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Our initial plan to take a detour south through Escalante—Grand Staircase National Monument was foiled—by torrential rain washing out Cottonwood Road. We formulated ‘Plan B’ when a couple we spoke to in Kodachrome Basin State Park motivated us to pay a visit to Capitol Reef National Monument. A quick look at a map showed an enticing looking road heading south through there, so we decided that would be the best route to take.

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