I was atrocious at updating this while I was road tripping across America but honestly, I was just trying to enjoy my time there and only spent time on the Internet when I was adding occasional photos to our instagram have a look here if you want.
Basically, as the title says I now have the post travel blues.
Driving across America with my best friends was undoubtedly one of the best experiences of my life (despite the couple of hiccups we encountered at the beginning of our trip).
I’m still in total disbelief that we actually done it. We drove 5044 miles across America. We seen and done some amazing things, I think the best parts were definitely the beautiful sights I seen along the way.
Below is just one picture from every place we went.
Boston, MA.
Above is our (second) car. We called her Monique; there is a story behind why we called her this but I’ll save that for another time.
New York City, NY.
Obviously you all know where we are. Times square baby!
Washington, D.C.
Obviously we found ourselves visiting big Abe L.
Abingdon, VA.
Abingdon for us was just a stopover, Needless to say I didn’t get many pictures apart from this from our motel window.
Nashville, TN.
Are you from Tennessee? Cause you’re the only ‘ten I see’ .. Unbeknown to ourselves (until we stepped out a taxi in the main streets) we were in Nashville during the CMA Music Festival which did mean for us there was an epic crowd of people. We didn’t get to see too much as we were in 2 bars before my group of friends got absolutely steaming and I had to drag them home.
New Orleans, LA.
I completely fell in love with NOLA, and with the Frenchmen Art Gardens especially. What a beautifully magical place. The work from local artists is just something else, they’re all so very talented. We also found ourselves in Cats Meow on Bourbon St. Needless to say (being Scottish) we found ourselves singing 500 miles by the proclaimers on stage.. who doesn’t love karaoke?
Ennis, TX.
Ennis was a small town stopover for us, and we’re all so glad we did stop over with here. We popped into the taco bell before we left and the staff were so lovely! They had never met anyone from Scotland before and so asked to get a picture with us. Made us feel so so welcome.
Amarillo, TX.
Cadillac Ranch. I was really looking forward to going here, and I definitely had so much fun. Spray paint in hand it was fun leaving our mark here, at least for a little while.
Farmington, NM.
We just had a little overnight stop in Farmington so there aren’t many pictures.
Grand Canyon, AZ.
My fear of heights kept me well away from the edge but it meant I got to take beautiful pictures like this while we watched the sun set over the Grand Canyon. We stayed at the Yavapai Lodges, if you book early enough to stay here it’s work it. Such an incredibly beautiful place.
Las Vegas, NV.
When in Vegas.. it always lands on black.
Los Angeles, CA.
We got to spend a few days exploring this beautiful city, although I know I have to go back as there’s so much more for me still to see. We made sure to find a set of angels wings. Because who can leave LA the city of angels without becoming an angel?
San Simeon, CA.
Beautiful little place. We spent the previous night on the beach watching the sun set, drinking a cider and running into the sea.
San Francisco, CA.
Can you say you’ve been to San Fran if you didn’t go to Alcatraz? We went on the night tour and it was amazing seeing this place, hearing what things were like, learning more than we previously knew. We spent 3 hours in this place, on this island and it was eerie. I can’t imagine how it felt for the prisoners.
I had the trip of my life and I’ll be sharing more stories and pictures from our month long road trip in the future.
Have you been to any of these places? Are you going? Tell me your favourite parts or what you’re most looking forward to!
I just want to do it all over again.
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