Bill and Diane's USA Tour 2011

We've just returned from a great trip through the United States of America, traveling over 10,000 km by plane, car and coach. 

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We stayed in Los Angeles for a couple of weeks with our daughter Sonya, SIL Bernard and grandson Fox. They showed us around LA and of course tinseltown where they live. It was great spending some time with them.

The family together in Los Angeles

Then we flew to New York where we stayed for a couple of days before joining our 23-day cross country tour as shown on the map above.

 A boat trip took us out to the Statue of Liberty

In Yellowstone National Park we came very close to a grizzly bear, on the same day some poor hiker was attacked and killed a little further in from where we were.

Close encounter with a grizzly bear

Some of the waterfalls in the Yellowstone National Park are fabulous as is the scenery everywhere in the park.

Waterfall in Yellowstone

Of course Old Faithfull didn't disappoint us even though we had to wait over an hour for its performance.

Old Faithful in discharge mode

In the Grand Canyon

From Las Vegas, we took a helicopter flight over the Hoover Dam into Grand Canyon where we landed in the canyon for a champagne lunch.

Flying over Hoover Dam

And finally we arrived back in Los Angeles which was the place the old Route 66 terminated at Santa Monica Beach.

Route 66 ends at Santa Monica Beach

If you follow Diane's blog, you'll see more details of the trip over the next few weeks.

Cheers,

Bill and Diane