Given it’s proximity to the infamous Silicon Valley and all its billions of dollars, San Francisco isn’t a city which springs to mind when you think “budget travel”. But, like with most cities, there is plenty you can do and…
Continue readingYou all know I’m a fan of budget travel. Why spend all that money on a hotel room when you’re going to be off out exploring the city, right? A trip to New York doesn’t come cheap. However, if you…
Continue readingZion National Park is one of the more popular National Parks in America. It’s one of the ones I’d heard of before we travelled over (unlike Bryce Canyon and Canyonlands National Parks). It was Utah’s first National Park and is…
Continue readingBryce Canyon is one of the most beautiful National Parks we visited during our American road trip. The rock formations, the Hoodoos, are incredible and the sunsets and sunrises are up their with the best. Bryce Canyon National Park is quite…
Continue readingUnlike Canyonlands and Bryce Canyon, Zion National Park was a National Park that I knew I wanted to visited before our trip around America. I was pretty set on doing a hike called The Narrows. It’s where you basically wade…
Continue readingI think the powers that be in Las Vegas assume everyone is going to win their millions. Why else would a cup of tea at Starbucks (normally $2.25) costs $4.55? No, haven’t exaggerated that price. We most definitely didn’t win…
Continue readingOver the past three months I’ve done tonnes. I’ve also seen a lot of things and places I never knew existed. One of these was Bryce Canyon National Park. I’d never heard of Bryce Canyon National Park before we looked…
Continue readingOne of the questions I’m most often asked is “how do you stay clean while living in a van?”. It’s true, travelling around the US in a van means you’re not exactly the cleanest human being. Our little van (Elvis to…
Continue readingThis article was originally published on Hipmunk’s Tailwind Blog by Kelly Soderlund, on 27/04/2017 It’s probably pretty obvious that Hipmunk loves animals (I mean, we have one as our mascot. We also boast a dog-friendly office). And as a travel company,…
Continue readingThom and I are big fans of Breaking Bad. We started watching it when we travelled around South America a few years ago. It took us more than the 3 months that we were travelling to complete all the series….
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