California did not greet us with sunshine. We were met with howling winds, torrential rain and crazy ladies being arrested out the front of our San Fransisco motel room. All in all our plan was to keep driving until we hit sunshine. The weather cleared momentarily as we stopped by Mavericks Beach. We had hoped […]

After finding summer in southern USA, we had forgotten how wet and cool Oregon was. We returned to our little free campsite nestled behind the dunes just south of Florence and on Monday morning made the drive back to Springfield to see Ike and the boys at Pangolin 4×4. Hayden had spoken to Ike several […]

Departing Vegas we decided to backtrack to San Francisco, having missed it the first time around. We drove west into the sunset past the world’s largest thermometer, back into California and stayed in a cheap hotel in Barstow where the Indian owner was more than impressed to have an Australian and a Kiwi as guests […]

From virtually zero civilisation down in the canyon we once again hit up the bright lights of Las Vegas. Neither of us are really into gambling, but when you consider the fact that you can get a hotel room in Vegas for less than the price of camping it was a case of ‘why not’. […]

After a quick one night stop over in Vegas (no report yet as we make a return trip so you’ll just have to wait) we drove further into the desert. Past the Hoover Dam and into Arizona we went, still fascinated by the stark landscape and impressed with the sunshine and warm weather. We spent […]

We left Meadow Vista and headed to Lake Tahoe. Winding up and up the mountain to reach the snow line, stopping in the small town of Truckee to gather lunch supplies. From there we drove all the way down the west side of Lake Tahoe. The only problem here was our inability to get close […]

We crossed the state line into California with a quick stop to for officers to ask if we were carrying any fresh fruit or firewood. Having neither in our possession we were very quickly waved on. Unfortunately the sky did not change from its dull grey as we’d hoped and so far it wasn’t ‘sunny […]

Once back in America we headed down past Seattle and Olympia to Millersylvania State Park. It was a little chilly and getting dark so we did a quick set up with the stove inside the tent (a project we sorted whilst in Mongolia). Upon completion it started to rain a little. Thinking we had timed […]

After collecting Maggie we were back on the road. First stop, strangely enough was to head north. Not ideal camping weather but we needed to collect some belongings we had left in Canada and even more strange was the desire to again sleep in the tent! We camped in a small campground by the beach […]

Whilst in New York we received the news that Maggie was due to arrive in Seattle port on New Year’s Day. We spent New Year’s Eve at our friend Claire’s apartment in Vancouver, pretending that we were real people who don’t live out of a car! Due to the no work nature of New Year’s […]