DATES: Friday 11th August to Sunday 10th September 2017 NEW YORK | NIAGRA FALLS | YELLOWSTONE | ECLIPSE: Our journey starts in New York City with an up-state tour finishing at Niagara Falls. We’ll then fly to Yellowstone National Park where we’ll stay a few nights before viewing the magnificent SOLAR ECLIPSE in the morning of 21st
At Heathrow, awaiting our 7 hour BA flight to Newark: take-off at 10:35 and arrival at 13:20. BA had cancelled the flight from Gatwick to JFK and moved us to this earlier take-off slot, which works out much better for us as we get to NYC, and to navigate our way to the hotel in
Having just arrived in New York the Honeymoon has (literally) already reached dizzying heights. If a room on the 24th floor wasn’t high enough we ventured up to the roof terrace and took a few snaps. Gym session with a view anyone? After a short stroll up 6th Street, and some refuelling (how cool is
Prepare yourself for an action packed report of our first full day in NYC. We left at 9am and (foolishly?) decided to walk downtown from mid-town Chelsea to catch the Staten Island ferry. We stopped to gaze up at the many and varied tall buildings along the way, sat in a pretty park and saw
After a hearty Hyatt breakfast our NYC itinerary today featured a trip up to the 86th floor of the Empire State Building (wow, those views, those heights and lovely marble walls); coffee kerb-side amidst Times Square action (noise, people, colours, lights, sirens – Piccadilly might seem dull now); retail therapy at Macy’s (pic of Mac
An early start on Monday to wheel our suitcase ‘Bob’ past all the flower store owners setting up shop, a few blocks up to Penn Station and to our Amtrak train, which took us alongside the Hudson River and through some beautiful English looking countryside, over the border into Canada to our next stop, Niagra
Okay, the first hitch in the Honeymoon travel plan, our flight from Buffalo was delayed due to stormy weather in Chicago so we missed our connecting flight from Chicago to Jackson Hole, the airport that would be the start of our Yellowstone adventure. Our suitcase ‘Bob’ did make the connection and arrived 12 hours before
We’re calling this post Yellowstone Planet because of the extraordinary other-worldly landscapes we saw during the three amazing days spent at the park. You can imagine Mike, with his rucksack full of hi-spec camera equipment, captured many impressive shots so, for blog purposes, we’ve chosen a varied selection. This blog has scenic pics taken at
The bison (above) walked past us along the road as we were leaving one evening, heading East into the park (and didn’t seem too bothered about the tailbacks in both directions!). An Elk holding up the traffic one morning while entering the park. Nothing to crow about! Where’s Alvin? How cute!.. not a native species,
After our amazing 3 days exploring Yellowstone from our base in Big Sky, Montana we had a very early start to get to the Airport at Jackson Hole where we had two critical events to make: our flights out to San Francisco, and the total Solar Eclipse that would happen at 11.35, that’s 1 hour