WordPress seem to go to a lot of trouble to convince users that ‘Freshly Pressed’ is fair, impartial and based on critical selection.
Consider this then from a blog page I chanced upon…
It has been interesting to look back over 2012 to see which posts were the most popular. Bagni di Lucca and Beyond has been Freshly Pressed twice this year, which has been great fun. Thank you WordPress for choosing.
It is a nice blog but it isn’t brilliant (sorry).
I say no more…
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Tagged blogging, Culture, Favouritism, Freshly Pressed, Life
This is the story of a journey in 1995 through the National Parks of the American Mid West.
Posted in Grand Canyon, History, Hotels, Natural Environment, USA, World Heritage
Tagged Arches National Park, Badlands, Bryce Canyon, Deadwood, Grand Canyon, Grand Tetons National Park, Lake Powell, Las Vegas, Mese Verde, Monument Valley, Mount Rushmore, Salt Lake City, USA National Parks, Wyoming, Yellowstone Park, Zion National Park
Our hotel was the one thousand seven hundred and twenty room Sahara which was a mock Moroccan Palace rising from the desert on the north end of the Las Vegas Strip and was recognisable by tall, colourful towers, which were featured prominently in the classic film Ocean’s 11 and was once a gathering spot for legends like the Rat Pack and Jack Benny and the lobby and the Thirsty Camel Bar (honestly) and others were full of old pictures of stars like Liberace and the Beatles.
Posted in Grand Canyon, History, Travel, USA
Tagged Elvis Presley, Las Vegas, Nevada, Sahara Hotel, USA
We left Kanab this morning and drove northwards again along Kanab Creek until we turned west at a junction of the road and joined West State Highway 9 on the route to Zion National Park. We were climbing again and there were some twists and turns in the road that gave good views over the mountainous plateau that we were ascending. We followed Pine Creek, which gave a welcome slash of verdant green slicing through the rocks and mountains that was otherwise al
l around us.
Posted in Grand Canyon, History, Travel, USA, World Heritage
Tagged Arizona, Kanab, National Parks, Nevada, Nevada Test Site, USA, Zion, Zion National Park
A late start again today because the day ahead was not that demanding in respect of travel and we were visiting the Bryce Canyon National Park, which wasn’t too far away. After breakfast we joined the coach and we pulled out of Kanab and headed due north. For a few miles we followed Kanab Creek before we branched off and the road followed the East Fork Virgin River, which was in a narrow lush green valley that was in total contrast to the arid wilderness on either side of it.
Posted in Grand Canyon, History, Travel, USA
Tagged Arizona, Bryce Canyon, Colorado, Kanab, National Parks, USA
After breakfast and check out we returned to the South Rim Visitor Centre to spend some more time at the Canyon to see it in the daylight. It was a bit of a disappointment therefore that the weather was slightly overcast and without the stimulating sunlight to create shadows and contrasts this seemed to leech the colours and the life from the rocks.
Posted in Grand Canyon, History, Hotels, Travel, USA, World Heritage
Tagged Arizona, Glen Canyon Dam, Grand Canyon, John Wayne, Kanab, Lake Powell, National Parks, TV Westerns, USA, Utah
It was another early start today and so early that it was still dark when we checked out and boarded the coach because there was a lot of travelling ahead as we headed west to Arizona and the Grand Canyon. Our first stop today was at the Four Corners monument where four States meet at one intersection and it is possible to be in all of them at the same time by standing in two and reaching down and touching the others. To get there we drove across a featureless landscape where distant mountains stood like islands in an ocean of desert and through a landscape scoured by erosion, a skeletal land stripped of all but the most minimal vegetation.
Posted in Grand Canyon, History, Travel, USA, World Heritage
Tagged Arizona, Colorado, Grand Canyon, John Ford, John Wayne, Lake Powell, Monument Valley, National Parks, New Mexico, Thelma and Louise, USA, Utah
Today at the start of the second week of our holiday we were driving towards Southeast Utah which is part of the arid rocky expanse of the Colorado Plateau and is an area of land that is dissected by the immense canyons of the Colorado River and a high desert region that can experience wide temperature fluctuations, sometimes over forty degrees in a single day. Summer temperatures often exceed one hundred Fahrenheit, making the region a bit uncomfortable I imagine, so we were pleased to be here in October on a very pleasant sunny day with a big blue sky and a perfect temperature.
Posted in Grand Canyon, History, Hotels, Travel, USA
Tagged Arches, Canyonlands National Park, Colorado, Cortez, Highway 666, Indiana Jones, National Parks, USA, Utah, Ute Nation
Today there was a choice to be made, we could either enjoy a free day sightseeing and shopping in Salt Lake City or we could go on an optional visit to the Great Salt Lake itself and not being terribly keen on shopping and being so close to the Lake it seemed a shame not to take this opportunity.
Posted in Grand Canyon, History, Travel, USA
Tagged Bingham Canyon, Copper Mine, Great Salt Lake, Salt Lake City, Saltair, Utah
