A Travel Blog
Warning: Contains pictures so cute that your heart is going to melt a little.
Last winter my friend Stine (whom I know from crossfit and the occasional mud bath slash obstacle course run) told me that she wanted to do a semester in Brisbane and that sort of kickstarted my travel plans. Like most people I’ve always dreamed about going to Australia, just not really knowing when that someday would be. But with Stine spending six months here I got the ‘excuse’ I needed.
So I left you in suspense on where I went to when I’d had enough of the pretty – but cold – Blue Mountains. Well I’d found a coastal town called The Entrance, not much of a detour towards my plan for the following day.
One last workout at Crossfit Athletic, a quick breakfast and then it was time to head to the suburbs to pick up my wheels for the following three weeks. The rental company had been so ‘kind’ to upgrade me to a larger car. Sounds nice but I really would’ve preferred a smaller one. It’s difficult enough to get used to driving on the [wrong] left hand side without also feeling that you’re maneuvering an elephant on wheels! To be fair it might not be that big (it’s a Toyota Corolla Ascent) but compared to my own cute and beloved car back home it’s gigantic!
So my goal of the day was quite simple: get me and my car to Katoomba in the Blue Mountains without any of us getting hurt.
Monday morning started out with a drop in at Crossfit Athletic City for a quick workout including three rounds of running around the block in between lots of people dressed in suits heading to work.
From you jump on a train at Sydney International Airport till you’re standing at Circular Quay looking at the Opera House and the Sydney Harbour Bridge it only takes 15 minutes. 15 minutes? I still don’t get how that is possible! But I loved finally being there – on the other side of the world.
After more than two weeks on the road it wasn’t all bad that I had to wait for a couple of days before Louise could fly up to SF since it gave me some much needed time for blogging and relaxing.
I’d opted for Santa Cruz to be my base for the two days and it turned out to be the perfect relaxed city just as I’d hoped. So after admiring the redwoods in Muir Woods I drove to Santa Cruz south of SF.
My second full day in San Francisco was all about exploring the city on two wheels. So I started out by picking up a bike and then doing a 2 hour guided tour to Sausalito north of SF.
My two and a half days/three nights in San Francisco were pretty jam-packed so I think I might have to split it into two separate posts.
On my way from Yosemite to SF I stopped by an outlet center so I didn’t arrive in SF till late in the afternoon. I was staying very close to Fisherman’s Wharf and I went for a walk around the neighborhood straight after checking in.
It wasn’t until I started looking through my pictures from Yosemite that I began to realize how magnificent that area is. I spent three days exploring the area in different ways and didn’t manage to figure out what all the fuss was about until just now.
After Vegas I didn’t have much planned for a few days other than getting myself closer to Yosemite. I started out by leaving Las Vegas Tuesday early morning as I had a long (and slightly boring) day of driving ahead of me. The route went through Death Valley and all the way up to Lee Vining which works as the entrance town to Yosemite when coming from east.