Bryce Canyon National Park

This place was spectacular, it was the only point of the trip through the middle where we touched the tip of winter for a day, it was cold, dry but desert cold,

But these rock spikes jutting up to the heavens made it worth it, they looked soo good when the sun set, some of my favourite photos were taken there

Zion National Park

We drove through a rock tunnel that even had Windows carved out so you could see the view. We did hikes and saw waterfalls. The weird thing that happened here was that we bumped into our first Aussies in about 8 months, it was weird and we were happy to loose them. It's funny when your away like we were, you kinda just want to be lost in other cultures and people, 

Camping at the Grand Canyon

We decided to camp at the Grand Canyon as it was pretty good weather. We loved it, in the evening we graves some beers, headed out on to a rocky pinnacle and watched the sunset and the starts come out, it was stellar! :)

The San Yuan mountains and the million dollar highway

We were told to do the million dollar highway. It was one of the most picturesque drives in America! It had flowering plants in the valleys and snow on the mountains, cool old wooden barns along the way. In our top 10 mountain drives in the world

The Four Corners

When in America, and road tripping you must put one foot in one state say Arizona, the other in New Mexico, a hand can also be put down in Coloraldo, and the other one in Utah, it's one of those Lampoon Vacation musts!! Was a lot of fun

To the Black Gunnison NP

We headed down to the first of the big tick off National Parks, the Black Gunnison one is less known though still majorly worth a visit, it is like a canyon with dark craggy pinnacles jutting up, we did what we do best a few good bush walks ;)

Hanging Garden

We visited a unique garden today halfway up a mountain, it is unique because it's made up of residue that wedged it's self between two rock faces, it then has a lake in the middle, so they recon one day it might all go flying down the mountain, the highlight was seeing a lady walk out a fallen trunk of a tree in the middle of the lake and then do a full yoga style pose standing totally upside down, pretty cool

Through Buena Vista, Aspen, Independence Pass in the middle of the night...

So we thought we would stay at Buena Vista, though haddnt made a reservation with accomodation. So when we got there it was a bit of a culture shock from the $40-55 a night cheap motels we had been finding, the cheapest one I think we could find was about $100USD and so it was about 7pm getting dark, so what do we decide to do drive through one of the highest parts of the Rocky Mountains known as independence pass, then through one of the most expensive parts of Coloraldo, Aspen to get to Glenwood springs which we found a motel almost in our backpackers budget. Our car still has an overheating problem, and a no heater problem etc. so we set off, soon it's freezing outside and inside the car as we climb the 4,000 metres vertically to get over the mountains, when we get near the top we are soo cold we start experimenting with the heater and soo good, we get it going!! Anyways we drive through Aspen ( which we would have liked to see during the day) and are starving by about 11 pm and then in the idle of nowhere in the mountains we see a Wholefoods! Now anyone who has been to the states knows 2 to 3 amazing supermarket chains they have there, Trader Joes, Amazing and Cheap, Wegmams, Amazing and not so cheap, and Wholefoods, Amazing and Pricy. But Wholefoods has amazing soups right and so we pull in just before they close and have a soup dinner. We finally make it to Glenwood springs and find our simple room to be nice and clean, and we sleep like Babies :)

Up pikes peak

Got to go up 4,200 metres in a car in 1 hour with Bec it was breathtaking, started to get a headache like strait away!! Why we did It because we could! :)

Went to a cool cliff filled national park

I have finally got around to writing up my posts from 3 years ago! If your wondering why my last few posts are in 2016 but the ones before it were 2013! It just shows how busy life is, I think it's awesome to remember the great times Bec and I had, the memories are still fresh, I'll blog about what happened in 2014 and 2015 when I get to it! Haha

Anyways back to Colorado, we went to devil canyon national park, it was cool and had a cool story, the park was donated by one guy back to the national parks. It a amazing that someone would do that.

The highway of Garage sales

Well I have been known to love garage sales. Well it just happened to turn out that the exact highway we were driving in for 800 km to get from the farm west to Colorado Springs was having it's annual garage sale weekend! So every single town on that highway was set up with garage sales, it was crazy. So much fun to travel along and stop at a lot of them, I bought a few things including 2 Polaroid SX-70 cameras for $15 and $20 each. I then kept the best one and sold the other one on eBay for $110 USD

It was really cool to travel along to Colorado, as there is not much else to sight see, very flat on this stretch, we also found a cool chrome highway diner to have a coffee and pie at.

Were about to hit the Rocky Mountains...

Burr Oak Kansas (back home on the farm) :)

Bec and I had a wonderful four nights staying with my 1998 host parents Brad and Colleen Jeffery. It was great to spend some quality time with them. We shot guns, drove Corvettes and went to some of the best yard sales in America! It was a great time. Hopefully they will come to Australia one of these days! 

Laurence Kansas

Stayed with my host bro Scott and his lovely wife Christina, it was a great time, we went to a K State Game and heard about the story where Scott sold a car for  $8,000 worth of Starbucks gift cards!

Kansas City

Loved our few days in Kansas City, highlights were the art gallery with giant shuttle cock, Kelleys recommended Mexican place and ice cream sandwiches from trader joes! Mmm

Branson MO

We have spent a few days in Branson, it's a really interesting place sort of like a mini Midwest Los Vegas. We stayed at a Days in with good breakfast and saw many touristy places including a replica of the titanic Restaraunt. We met some college students who were at on of the only colleges in America where you work to pay for your tuition as you study.