Category: World Trip 1999-2000
A 118-day world trip visiting six countries – New Zealand, England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland, and Wales between 11 November 1999 and 6 March 2000.
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Monday 17 January 2000 Highlights: Losing money quickly Vegas style 🙂 An early wake to catch the 7.20 am bus to Las Vegas. We met up with Mark and Angela for the bus trip. Arriving in Las Vegas we rang around looking for the cheapest Casino – Hotel which turned out to be the Tropicana…
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Sunday 16 January 2000 Highlights: The amazing Grand Canyon. After enjoying the free hostel breakfast the tour of the Grand Canyon left around 9.30 am and took approximately 2 hours to get to our destination. Our driver and guide David took us to four different points on the South Rim during the day and we…
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Saturday 15 January 2000 Highlights: Nothing today. We arrived at Flagstaff very early in the morning. I had a spare empty seat next to me so managed some sleep, Jon wasn’t so lucky. After ringing many local hostel’s Grand Canyon International answered and organised a pick up from the bus station. Checking in at 7…
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Friday 14 January 2000 Highlights: Palace of the Governors, San Miguel Mission A change of plans meant we got a chance to explore Santa Fe. Santa Fe is the oldest surviving town in the USA that was part of Mexico originally. We visited the Palace of the Governors that was for a long time the…
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Thursday 13 January 2000 Highlights: Barely surviving a 23 hour bus trip 😦 Barely surviving a 23 hour bus journey we arrived in Santa Fe around 3.50 pm and walked down to the Thunderbird Inn to spoil over selves instead of staying in the local hostel. Santa Fe is just a stop over point before…
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Wednesday 12 January 2000 Highlights: Mt Rushmore, Custer Park. We managed to visit Mt Rushmore today, it only took a taxi ride to Stargis, a bus ride to Rapid City and a short term car rental to get there. Driving in the USA takes some getting used to (right side of the road) but I…
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Tuesday 11 January 2000 Highlights: Visiting graves of Calamity Jane and Wild Bill Today we visited the historic sites of Deadwood. But first the locals greet us as we walked around the small town. This was surprising but apparently getting to Australians in town was news, we must have made an impression playing blackjack last…
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Monday 10 January 2000 Highlights: Wild West Gambling! After 25.5 hours of travelling, five bus changes, three bus companies, two time zone changes and a cab ride we arrived at Deadwood and our hotel (no hostel stay this time). South Dakota is basically very bare and dusty. Wind storms were very evident. However Deadwood itself…
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Sunday 9 January 2000 Highlights: Birthday Present (LOL) We left our terrible Hostel and killed time walking around the city. As it was my birthday Jon splashed out and got me a Burger King Meal! We spent a while at the public library using the free internet before catching the first bus on what would…
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Saturday 8 January 2000 Highlights: Art Institute of Chicago, ‘Second City’ comedy club After our extremely long day yesterday (little sleep on the bus) we slept in to about 1 pm, which due to the time zone change felt like noon. There isn’t a great deal to do in Chicago during the day unless Museums…
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