• Jason Muir
  • Chrys Patsalos
  • Jason Muir
  • Chrys Patsalos

Wedding and honeymoon USA

A 62-day adventure by Jason & Chrys Read more
  • Texas Y’all

    September 30, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 34 °C

    So today we drove from Austin through the Texas Hill Country down to San Antonio to visit the famous Alamo, Missions and the River Walk (we took the powered barge lol). On the way back to Austin we ate at the legendary Black’s BBQ (est 1932) in Lockhart, the official BBQ capital of Texas! It has been surreal getting around Texas - it looks and feels surprisingly like…Australia! And the speed limit coming home was 85mph (137 Kph). Gotta love that y’all!Read more

  • Lazy Sunday in Austin

    October 1, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 34 °C

    On our last day in Austin we drove around the inner suburbs looking at eclectic Knick Knack stores, taking snaps of iconic street art and eating at the legendary Sandy’s Burgers est. 1945. Off tomorrow to Sante Fe where we start our last leg - an all American road trip through New Mexico, Arizona and Utah.Read more

  • Sante Fe (New Mexico)

    October 2, 2023 in the United States ⋅ 🌬 21 °C

    Today we arrived in the charming Sante Fe in the Sangre de Cristo foothills of New Mexico. Santa Fe was founded as a Spanish colony in 1610 and is renowned for its Pueblo-style architecture and as a creative arts hotbed today. In the afternoon we went to the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum to see the wonderful paintings of this renowned American artist who spent much of her time in New Mexico. Sante Fe is known as ‘The City Different’ and certainly is - in the best of ways.Read more

  • Monument Valley

    October 4, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C

    Today we arrived in a stunningly beautiful part of the world - Monument Valley. Monument Valley is a Navajo Tribal Park on the Arizona-Utah border and is known for its sandstone buttes (formations). It has frequently been used as a filming location for Western movies, most famously featuring John Wayne. Fun fact - Harry Goulding and his wife started the Gouldings lodge here in the 1920s and by the 1930s we’re struggling due to the depression so went up to Hollywood to convince the filmmaker John Ford to make his next film here. He did and the rest is history! We are lucky enough to be staying in the Gouldings Lodge, up and close to it all. The vastness and enormity of this place is absolutely mesmerising and completely surreal.Read more

  • Road Trip - Sante Fe to Monument Valley

    October 4, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C

    Today we did the magnificent drive from Sante Fe to Monument Valley through New Mexico and Arizona, including Navajo Country. Again the landscape was absolutely spectacular with gorgeous river, road and rock formation views.Read more

  • Zion National Park

    October 5, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C

    Today we are in the Zion National Park in the magnificent state of Utah. Like Monument Valley yesterday, Zion is devastatingly beautiful. On good advice we hired e-bikes and rode the entire scenic drive and it was a fantastic experience. In Utah, you can only be served alcohol with food by law, but you don’t need alcohol to be intoxicated by the ridiculous beauty all around you here in Zion!Read more

  • Utah Roadtrip

    October 6, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C

    As if the beauty of Monument Valley and Zion wasn’t enough, now Utah delivers official Sound of Music/Norska realness on the drive to Salt Lake City. Snow capped mountains, sparkling streams, glistening lakes and waterfalls, autumnal trees, Mormon Temples - too much Utah! We even visited Provo where the Osmonds are from!Read more

  • Wyoming and North Utah

    October 7, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C

    Today we drove up into Wyoming and across to North Utah to see the beautiful prairies and autumnal trees, hills and mountains. You really get the ‘home on the range’ vibes out here. We saw more Bison and Elk and even got stopped on the road by a cow and her calves! Now stop ya fussing an’ a fighting Jeremiah and get back to work.Read more

  • Salt Lake City, Great Lake and Plains

    October 7, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C

    To complete our trip in Salt Lake City we visited the great Salt Lake and Plains. Did you know that it is the saltiest body of water in the world second only to the Dead Sea. The saltiest part is 25% which is super salty compared to the Ocean at only around 3.5%. Over the last 10,000 years, more than 4 billion tons of salt has been extracted from this lake. Fascinating! See also a few shots of the city.Read more

  • Homeward Bound

    October 9, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C

    Well, the honeymoon of our dreams has finally come to an end. We have been extremely fortunate to have had so much time and to have done so much. It has been amazing and we are profoundly grateful for the experience. We are particularly grateful for everyone that was able to make it over for our wedding, to all the wonderful friends we caught up with along the way and to everyone back home and around the world who watched online and followed our trip via FindPenguins and Facebook. Your comments and encouragement has made the trip all that it could be. See pics for a hall of fame!
    Love Chrys and Jason XX
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    Trip end
    October 11, 2023