Day 24 (9 August 2016) - Grand Canyon South Rim and Page

The last leg of our journey was going east from Las Vegas to cover the main part of the Grand Canyon. Our original plan was to cover the north and south rims but the north rim was closed and so the route to the south rim was the default choice. This was just as well as getting to the north or south rim from Las Vegas is a mammoth four hour drive and there is no way to cover both rims in a day by driving the distances are too vast. Our route to the...

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Day 23 (8 August 2016) - Las Vegas

Rest, there are some days where you need a day of rest and for us Day 23 was our day of rest. This pretty much meant we work up without an alarm and it was a day of pool side laze. Our evening was spend on the Las Vegas strip got back over the best bits from our first three da...

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Day 22 (7 August 2016) - Palm Springs to Las Vegas

The day in Palm Springs began with an early morning swim in the pool. The hotel was hosting a salsa competition well into the night so we had the pool pretty much to ourselves in the morning. By 9am the temperature was gaining and we left the pool check out and headed off to the main thing to do in Palm Springs apart from laze about is the Palm Springs tramway. The tramway takes you too the top of the valley to an alpine environment and there are...

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Day 21 (6 August 2016) - San Diego to Palm Springs

Leaving the Pacific Coastal Highway meant that the end of odyssey was near. In the morning we went to the La Jolla Cove where you can see more seals and down toward Ocean beach. We then drove up the Pacific Coast and had a final dip in the ocean. Our route to Palm Spring was not the fastest route which is usually via the interstate or highways. It was over the mountain range and descending onto the desert floor. Our route is shown below This...

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Day 20 (5 August 2016) - San Diego

San Diego felt like a real laid back place, we were staying in La Jolla which seem to be on the outskirts of the main San Diego which means especially laid back. Our day in San Diego was means to be one of our recovery days from the intense travel to date and the part of the journey that lay ahead. So this page is not really going to be about San Diego and all the wonderful things we did, if you're looking for that the tourist website will give...

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Day 19 (4 August 2016) - Los Angeles to San Diego

Everyone who travels these days will TripAdvisor everything and for Los Angeles the Getty Museum and Villa rank highly. Being from London and have access to a large number of museums means that while the Getty visit was interesting it was not mandatory. But our day's driving to San Diego was a reversal. It started going backward, tracking back on ourselves to the Getty and then even further back to Malibu. The Getty The Getty was...

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Day 18 (3 August 2016) - Los Angeles

After the previous day at the beach our second day was pretty much a day of arranged pre-planned activity. We had shunned the Universal Studio's tour on the pricing grounds primarily and opted for the Warner Bros Studio tour. Tour of the Star's Hollywood homes We opted for a morning tour of the Star's homes in Hollywood hills and Beverly Hills. There are a number of companies offering these that leave pretty much hourly. You'll be put in a bus...

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Day 17 (2 August 2016) - Los Angeles

We had decided that Los Angeles (LA) was a city for everyone and we all picked up on things we wanted to see or do. Our couple of day in LA started with something I've always wanted to so which is go to Santa Monica and Venice beaches and especially muscle beach. By the time we got to LA the fog that hounds the coast further not was gone completely. LA had clear blue skies with not cloud in sight. Santa Monica Beach A beach suburb of LA with a...

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Day 16 (1 August 2016) - Santa Barbara to Los Angeles

Santa Barbara town center is very accessible and organise it has a single main street that ends at the Pacific Ocean. The street is littered with high end shops and restaurants. Parking is straight forward and just on the streets behind. The beach has easy parking too. The beach is a very nice too, we came across and interesting sight in the car park of a decorated van. Whilst I did not have much interest in it my better half took some interesting...

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