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

tonyecktonyeck Registered Users Posts: 5 Beginner grinner
edited April 4, 2008 in Journeys
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:
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A couple of days on the road - heading towards South Dekota
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Star gazing :)
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Our First destination was Badlands National Park
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Where we were treated to a nice evening storm
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Naturally we had to stop at Mount Rushmore :)
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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
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Artists view point at Yellowstone
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Beautiful landscape at Yellowstone
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Just South of Yellowstone is Grand Tetons...
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Watching the sun go down :)
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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
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Glitzy lights of Nevada
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Finally made it to Lake Tahoe to finally have a wash! :rofl
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So we made it to California! Now to Yosemite
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Famous :)
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Next stop - Vegas... Made a nice relaxing night :) Actually stayed in a Hotel instead of the back of the truck :rofl
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Enjoying a doughnut down the strip :)
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Grand Canyon was next on our list...
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Lots of interesting summer weather of course :)
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You gotta get up for sunrise :)
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On the way to the north rim
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North Rim at night
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The same, yet very different to the south rim
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Nice fire to relax to
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Bryce canyon was next
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Then onto Zion for some excellent hiking
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and swimming :)
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Shadows taking over at Zion :)
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Driving along the Colorado river towards Arches
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A hike to the arches
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Then onto Canyon Lands
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And the final stop before rushing back to Virginia to catch a flight to the UK - The Colorado rockies :)
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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/

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    photo*smurfphoto*smurf Registered Users Posts: 23 Big grins
    edited March 11, 2007
    WOW! Awesome shots. Looks like you had a wonderful time.
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    PrezwoodzPrezwoodz Registered Users Posts: 1,147 Major grins
    edited March 11, 2007
    Looks like an awesome trip! All those places look familiar too! Great to see them again. :)clap.gif
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    ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,910 moderator
    edited 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!
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    bsvirginianbsvirginian Registered Users Posts: 241 Major grins
    edited March 12, 2007
    mwink.gif 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. BSthumb.gif
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    tonyecktonyeck Registered Users Posts: 5 Beginner grinner
    edited March 12, 2007
    bsvirginian wrote:
    mwink.gif 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. BSthumb.gif

    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 :)
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    SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited 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 clap.gif
    Gosh you sure saw a lot on you way, love that lightning bolt shot too clap.gif
    No chance of getting taken by a shark in that water rolleyes1.gif
    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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    ALBUM http://ozzieskip.smugmug.com/

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    ShepsMomShepsMom Registered Users Posts: 4,319 Major grins
    edited 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!! clap.gif
    Marina
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    BendrBendr Registered Users Posts: 665 Major grins
    edited March 14, 2007
    yay! Excellent journey, been to a few of those place myself, and your pics reminded me of 'em :)
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    coldclimbcoldclimb Registered Users Posts: 1,169 Major grins
    edited 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!
    John Borland
    www.morffed.com
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    dogwooddogwood Registered Users Posts: 2,572 Major grins
    edited 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.
    Portland, Oregon Photographer Pete Springer
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    albion.jordanalbion.jordan Banned Posts: 1 Beginner grinner
    edited 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.
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    ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,910 moderator
    edited April 4, 2008
    Road trips rock!

    And you got to see a lot of really cool places too. Especially the Grand Canyon.
    Moderator Journeys/Sports/Big Picture :: Need some help with dgrin?
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    Hyllmark92Hyllmark92 Registered Users Posts: 97 Big grins
    edited April 4, 2008
    Great shots!
    Smile
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