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Category Archive: Travel Blog

Photo Friday #7: Bellagio Fountains, Las Vegas

The Fountains at Bellagio are one of the major attractions on the Las Vegas Strip and best of all, they’re free to view! Shows take place every half hour every day from noon until 8pm and then every 15 minutes after that until midnight.

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Road Trip Day 7: Santa Monica

One of the first things on our to-do list while in Los Angeles was to visit the beaches and being a sunny Saturday afternoon, we thought we would head to Santa Monica for the day. Unfortunately for us, the rest of […]

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Photo Friday #6: Ghost Town

The photos we captured during our visit to Bodie, California were so amazing that we had to share another one with you for this week’s Photo Friday. Here’s a car in front of the Shell gas station in Bodie.

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Road Trip Day 6: Welcome to Los Angeles

After a perfect night’s sleep at The Padre Hotel in Bakersfield, we set off on the 2-hour drive to Los Angeles – our base for the next 4 nights. We knew it wasn’t going to be a leisurely drive to […]

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Road Trip Day 5: Relaxation in Bakersfield, California

The first four days of our California Road Trip have been action-packed from a day of activities on Lake Tahoe to checking out a ghost town and hiking in Yosemite National Park. Today, Day 5, was the biggest driving day […]

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Road Trip Day 4: Hiking Yosemite National Park

Our accommodation within Yosemite National Park was the tented camp of Curry Village. We booked Curry Village two months in advance as this was the only lodging available to us within the national park. Apparently accommodations with plumbing sell out […]

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Road Trip Day 3: Bodie – A California Ghost Town

We reluctantly departed South Lake Tahoe and set off for the next destination on our road trip – the beautiful Yosemite National Park. Because the check-in at our accommodation in Yosemite wasn’t until 5pm, we planned to make a quick […]

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Photo Friday #5: San Francisco Houses

The architecture in San Francisco is absolutely breathtaking! Along 18th Street in The Castro district, we spotted these brightly colored Queen Anne cottages complete with decorative buttons that just needed to be photographed.

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