USA Road Trip (VA - CA - VA) 56k Beware

tonyeck · March 11, 2007

Hi guys. This is my first post after finding this great site earlier today. Just thought I'd share one of my favourite journeys that I did last year...

I had finished my job in the states after 17 months of constant work. I was 6 weeks away from returning to the UK with my girlfriend to finish my studies. This is the perfect excuse for a ROAD TRIP! We lived in Virginia and we wanted to make it all the way to Yosemite CA...

We spent a month living in the back of a 95 Dodge Dakota truck and camping at as many national parks as we could! It was a fantastic experience and one I think everyone should try and do. We saw so many incredible things and cannot wait to do it again.

Mapping the trip:

A couple of days on the road - heading towards South Dekota

Star gazing

Our First destination was Badlands National Park

Where we were treated to a nice evening storm

Naturally we had to stop at Mount Rushmore

Another days driving brought us to Yellowstone where we were greated by Buffalo. Later that night we almost got into an accident with one in the middle of the road :doh

Artists view point at Yellowstone

Beautiful landscape at Yellowstone

Just South of Yellowstone is Grand Tetons...

Watching the sun go down

Our next destination was Lake Tahoe travelling through Salt Lake City. During the sunset we stopped to take this over the salt plains heading into Nevada

Glitzy lights of Nevada

Finally made it to Lake Tahoe to finally have a wash! :rofl

So we made it to California! Now to Yosemite

Famous

Next stop - Vegas... Made a nice relaxing night

Actually stayed in a Hotel instead of the back of the truck :rofl

Enjoying a doughnut down the strip

Grand Canyon was next on our list...

Lots of interesting summer weather of course

You gotta get up for sunrise

On the way to the north rim

North Rim at night

The same, yet very different to the south rim

Nice fire to relax to

Bryce canyon was next

Then onto Zion for some excellent hiking

and swimming

Shadows taking over at Zion

Driving along the Colorado river towards Arches

A hike to the arches

Then onto Canyon Lands

And the final stop before rushing back to Virginia to catch a flight to the UK - The Colorado rockies

There you go

8600 miles later, it was the best and most fun trip ever. Hope you enjoyed my pics!

Map of the journey
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonysphotographs/sets/72157594377779542/map/

And more pics here
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonysphotographs/sets/72157594377779542/

photo*smurf · March 11, 2007

WOW! Awesome shots. Looks like you had a wonderful time.

Prezwoodz · March 11, 2007

Looks like an awesome trip! All those places look familiar too! Great to see them again.

ian408 · March 11, 2007

That's a great trip! The lightning was pretty cool--we saw some of that in
Utah last summer. Excepting we were on motorcycles :eek1

Thanks for sharing!

bsvirginian · March 12, 2007

Quite an accounting of your trip. Did you document much between Virginia and the west? That lightning shot was great. How many tries to capture it. BS

tonyeck · March 12, 2007

bsvirginian wrote:

Quite an accounting of your trip. Did you document much between Virginia and the west? That lightning shot was great. How many tries to capture it. BS

We were on the road mainly from Northern VA through PA, OH, IL, MI all the way to SD, so photos are mainly of road stuff, highway stuff to be more precise

The lightning shot was pure luck. Was a pleasent suprises to see it there

Skippy · March 13, 2007

tonyeck wrote:

Hi guys. This is my first post after finding this great site earlier today. Just thought I'd share one of my favourite journeys that I did last year...
There you go 8600 miles later, it was the best and most fun trip ever. Hope you enjoyed my pics!
Map of the journey
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonysphotographs/sets/72157594377779542/map/
And more pics here
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonysphotographs/sets/72157594377779542/

What a wonderful journey

Gosh you sure saw a lot on you way, love that lightning bolt shot too

No chance of getting taken by a shark in that water

I see Zion had lots of water flowing for you too.

The Grand Canyon is such an awesome sight isn't it, it's quite breathe taking the first time you ever see it, I had no idea just how wide and how deep the Canyons were.

Thank you for sharing your amazing shots from your journey,
I hope you get the opportunity to go back again some time.
...... Skippy
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ShepsMom · March 13, 2007

Those brought back memories!! Vegas, Zion, Bryce, Canyon, all of it!! Beautiful shots. I just want to jump in my car and drive, drive, drive!!

Bendr · March 14, 2007

yay! Excellent journey, been to a few of those place myself, and your pics reminded me of 'em

coldclimb · March 16, 2007

Good stuff! I climbed two walls in your pics with Prezwoodz on our own road trip last summer, and visited a bunch of the same places too. Something EVERYONE should do! Nice shots!

dogwood · March 16, 2007

Love the pics and narration. Very nicely done. You seem to adopt a 'voice' with the photos in the begining and it keeps steady throughout. Thanks for taking the time to post.

albion.jordan · April 3, 2008

Re:USA Road Trip (VA - CA - VA) 56k Beware
Hi tonyeck,

Nice pics,looking great.The places are also looking amazing.It’s really good information for me.Thanks for sharing your nice information with us.

ian408 · April 4, 2008

Road trips rock!

And you got to see a lot of really cool places too. Especially the Grand Canyon.

Hyllmark92 · April 4, 2008

Great shots!

USA Road Trip (VA - CA - VA) 56k Beware

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