Touring holiday to Nevada, California & Arizona

funkyfin2000

Nice work Mich, brought a lot of memories back for me of May this year!

jackieblack

Wow - I'm exhausted just reading your TR mich_city!
You must feel like you need a holiday to recover!

Can you remember how long it took to drive from Monterey to San Luis Opispo?

mich_city

jackieblack wrote: »

Wow - I'm exhausted just reading your TR mich_city!
You must feel like you need a holiday to recover!

Can you remember how long it took to drive from Monterey to San Luis Opispo?

thanks all..

some lucky ones were doing an extension to hawaii after all that.. would have been nice

cant remember exactly how long it took to SLO but were were never on the road more than a couple of hours before stopping.. will have to ask OH see if he can remember.

blindman

countingcrow62 wrote: »

That sounds a great trip. I did a few Cosmos tours of the USA many Moons ago. I love the National Parks there. We were lucky enough to go the Canyon, Yellowstone, Bryce and Yosemite (Sadly just for a day). I would love to fly drive that area in the next couple of years.

Did you see my posts a few pages back?

It's failry easy to DIY USA travel.

blindman

mich_city wrote: »

other than LA and vegas, I loved it all.. was hard going at times, we covered 2,500 miles.. we saw some sights tho.. spent too long in some places and not enough time in others..

That's the price you pay for going on a tour:cool:

thats how it goes keeping to a schedule I suppose. we definately couldnt have done it ourselves.. i'd do it all again tomorrow if I could!

sorry its a bit long.. hope I didnt bore you all too much

I'm sure you could have and it would have probably cost you less and you'd have seen more.:D

Still, glad you enjoyed yourselves.

mich_city

blindman wrote: »

I'm sure you could have and it would have probably cost you less and you'd have seen more.:D

Still, glad you enjoyed yourselves.

thats the thing.. tesco points paid for most of it so were limited to cosmos or virgin for the holiday..

OH doesnt drive and I hate it, so wouldn't have driven over there.. know that for sure.. I nearly had a nervous breakdown driving in france once :rotfl:

funkyfin2000

Mich - Don't put yourself down! Of course you can do it on your own! And from experience in May it is FANTASTIC when you do!

I am sure had an ace time and you saw a lot by your own admission but going on your own can be an utter joy! Both times we have been its been amazing!

torbrex

mich_city wrote: »

we had fish and chips elsewhere where they were chips!

they were nice tho so wasn't complaining.. :rotfl:

was a lot to pack in now I look back on it, we were thinking of just doing the national parks and canyons if we go again.. preferred the quieter places.

I can heartily recommend doing the quieter parts of you tour independently, I have been to most of these areas myself in a combination of 3 trips.
The beauty of not being tied to a tour is that you can stay an extra couple of days somewhere without having to worry about hotel rooms booked 200 miles away, just pop in to the nearest motel, of which there are always loads, and next day you can get an early start.
I did all the sights round Sedona before breakfast when the sun was just coming up and got some amazing colours in my photo's that are just not available to late risers.

Sounds like you had a good trip and judging by the pics you have posted so far, you will have brought home a lot of nice memories.

mich_city

torbrex wrote: »

I can heartily recommend doing the quieter parts of you tour independently, I have been to most of these areas myself in a combination of 3 trips.
The beauty of not being tied to a tour is that you can stay an extra couple of days somewhere without having to worry about hotel rooms booked 200 miles away, just pop in to the nearest motel, of which there are always loads, and next day you can get an early start.
I did all the sights round Sedona before breakfast when the sun was just coming up and got some amazing colours in my photo's that are just not available to late risers.

Sounds like you had a good trip and judging by the pics you have posted so far, you will have brought home a lot of nice memories.

It was fabulous..

think i'd do a tour again but would make sure there was more nights in fewer places..

sedona is beautiful.. loved san francisco too, nice vibe there.. would loved to have got a shot of the bridge with rolling fog

have added a link to post above for some of my photos, will get them all uploaded eventually

Pee

Hello. I haven't got to the end of reading through this thread yet. Wow, it's huge!!

At the moment I've got as far as "the weather will be good in May, the weather will be too hot in July". I'm thinking about going over Christmas. I have a good friend who lives out there that it would be great to catch up with and he might come along with us or not, as suits him. He lives near Monterey, so I want to do the Monterey/ Big Sur thing and also fancy the Grand Canyon. At the moment this is just a crazy idea. I've never been to America. Is the weather in December/ January or the length of the days going to scupper this plan?