We'd been talking about trying to include a trip to a good ol' American ghost town but one of the biggest (Bodie) was a little too far off our route. Instead, we picked a visit to Grafton on the way back from Zion. Grafton was evacuated in 1866 due to flooding and fighting, with the … Continue reading An Old Ghost-Town That Everybody Forgot
My main memory of the Hoover Dam was heat. It was blisteringly hot and that's coming from someone who had just spent a day or too baking in the Vegas sun. The problem with the Hoover Dam is that there is no shelter, none at all. So if you are planning to visit, lather up … Continue reading The Secret Location for the AllSpark and Megatron – Otherwise Known as the Hoover Dam
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Banff's sulphur hot springs stink. There's no getting away from it, the smell of sulphur is everywhere and it reeks. As soon as we pulled up in the car park, the smell invaded everything and it smelt like rotten eggs. Still, we'd never visited hot springs before, and as the saying goes, try everything at … Continue reading A Stinky Pool in Paradise
