United States Of America

We started on the bit of the PCH called Big Sur, which is some of the most impressive coastline and windy windy roads!

I’ve visited LA twice. Once in 2010 on a road trip from San Diego to San Francisco (via Yosemite) and once in 2019 to visit family. Both tr…

Out of Santa Monica and through Malibu was beautiful, it was a really nice way to start the drive. I was driving that morning, and about tw…

We then went to a small vineyard which also doubled as an Art Gallery on several floors. I had drawn the long straw so was able to do wine …

We walked into town. The main street was a recreation, much like Old Town in San Diego. Full of tourist trap stores, more Disney than anyth…

Once checked in we wandered down to the gas lamp quarter to have a look around and find some dinner. Most of the buildings were from prohib…

We pulled into San Francisco at about quarter to five. A nice place, but smack bang in the middle of the Tenderloin, which isn't the best a…

An evening stop on our drive along the Pacific Coast Highway, San Luis Obispo was a surprising place.

The following morning, I dragged myself out of bed at about nine for breakfast, and decided against the pool as I may drown (and enjoy it a…

Next stop on the drive was Santa Barbara, downtown. We parked in the main area by the pier and had lunch at a faux English fish and chips p…

Jumping back on the Highway One, we zoomed into Santa Cruz and checked in to a Knights Inn. Seems like a nice place and we've got a decent …

We wandered around town for a while just getting a feel for the place. Santa Monica is awesome, it has a really good vibe!

We arrived in Sonoma and checked into the hotel, which was really nice. Old for America, having been built in the eighteen hundreds. It had…

We briefly stopped in Stockton and were harassed about voting until we made it clear that we were tourists and so helping us vote would be …

It is very hard to convey the sense of scale of the trees. In a picture they often look like regular trees because there are no context clu…

Toll receipt 17 August 1991 — $1.50 for a 2-axle truck crossing the Delaware River into the archive.

Cape Canaveral — four Earth Shuttle Tour tickets from 1991 ($3 child, $6 adult) in the trip archive.

Section B12, 17 August 1991 — a Maryland Department of Natural Resources camping receipt from the Forest, Park & Wildlife side of the ledge…

A visit to the capital of Massachusetts, Boston.

For two years when I was young, I lived in the small town of Scotch Plains, NJ.

Central Park West — including the Hayden Planetarium — on the same 1991 New York pass as the Intrepid.

The aircraft carrier museum at Pier 86 — 46th St & 12th Ave — on the 1991 itinerary as a dedicated visit alongside the wider New York trip.

In 2016 I had to go to New York for work. It was something of a flying visit, landing on Monday and heading off Thursday afternoon, so ther…

As a 10 year old kid, we visited Orlando to see the incredible amusement parks.

I spent an evening in Dallas thanks to delays in taking off from Costa Rica.

The “Old Country” era of Busch Gardens Williamsburg — remembered from a 1991 parking ticket in the archive, before the modern name changes.

Lucius J. Kellam Jr. Bridge-Tunnel — the crossing that threads islands and tunnels across the mouth of the Chesapeake, remembered here from…

Camping near Williamsburg and Jamestown — a 1991 stop on the Virginia peninsula, stub until field notes and imagery are digitised.

Black-and-white photographs of the Washington Monument — including double-exposed frames from a 1991 visit to the National Mall.