Welcome to this year’s adventure starting on 25th April.

This year we will be visiting new places and meeting up with dear friends.

It’s been seven years since we visited the East Coast of the USA and a lot has happened in the meantime. Covid came along and stopped travel for a long time of course.

This year we will fly into Atlanta and overnight there before driving to Asheville, North Carolina to visit the Biltmore Estate consisting of a historic house museum and beautiful gardens. It was built for George Washington Vanderbilt II between 1889 and 1895 and is the largest privately owned house in the United States.

It’s there that we will meet up with the first of our friends, Denise and Desiree. They are the sisters we first met up with in London in 2012. Denise was the winner of the Sony         Worldwide Landscape Photographic Competition in 2012 and she and Desiree had travelled to London to collect her prize. Simon knew Denise from his days on Flickr the photographic site. We’ve remained friends ever since.

We will then travel to Babcock State Park in West Virginia, staying overnight, before driving to Wilkes-Barre in Pennsylvania to visit Rickett’s Glen State Park to see the numerous waterfalls. There is also the possibility of us doing a little gambling too as there is a casino in Wilkes-Barre! 😱

Fingers crossed, we may be able to replicate our large win at the end of our last holiday in Las Vegas last year!🤞

From there, we will travel to Upstate New York to meet up with our other dear friends, Dot and Nat. Followers of the blog will know that we first met them both in the good old Twilight Saga film days, that was 15 years ago😱and our friendship is still going strong!

Our final destination will be to Lake Placid in the Adirondacks, New York State. The winter Olympics have been held there twice, in 1932 and 1980.

From there we will drive to Boston to fly home.