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USA Road trip – Monument Valley and Gooseneck on San Jose River

Coffee on the old-school gas station by the empty road. Sun shining straight into your eyes. $1 Sunglasses on your head. Wind blowing your hair, country music playing out loud in the car, black highway and the welcoming space in front of us, asking just to travel more, to travel further… After adventures of this morning, we left Arizona to come back to Utah again!

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USA Road trip – Petrified Forest and Painted Desert

Desert painted with amazing colours of different minerals, petrified forest with the trees that lived there over 200 million years ago and now are beautiful looking stones. Majestic sunset, magic sunrise. A sky full of stars. Sound of the coyotes breaking the total silence. How was the first day and night of the USA Road trip?

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Where to eat in Houston

Houston foodie guide – the best places to eat in Houston, Texas

The most popular thing to do in Houston, apart from shopping, is eating. With the variety of restaurants, food that cheap and that good, eating out several times a week is nothing bad. Check the best places to eat in Houston, also on a budget. Attention, lots of food photos there – don’t start reading without dinner! Continue reading “Houston foodie guide – the best places to eat in Houston, Texas”

USA and Texas – Houston, we have a problem!

 

It’s one of those phrases from the movie “Apollo 13”, that everyone knows . Even though, the movie story was made more dramatic by editing the original phase “Houston, we’ve had a problem here”, the true is that the real action was strongly connected to Houston in Texas. Here, in the NASA Space Center the controllers were watching the most important moments in American space history.

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Autumn in Scotland Isle of Skye

New Year’s Eve in Scotland – traditional cottage in the Scottish Highlands

How to spend New Year’s Eve on a budget? Hitch-hiking guide.

You can spend New Year’s Eve on a budget, in a great location abroad, with awesome people, travelling long distances and without spending a lot of money? How? Read on! Continue reading “How to spend New Year’s Eve on a budget? Hitch-hiking guide.”

India. Manali – at the foot of the mighty Himalayas

Gentle moving and a bit of light coming through the bus windows woke me up. It was still dark outside, but the sun shyly started to show its first rays above the horizon, indicating that the dawn is close. I looked around the bus. Everyone was still asleep, stretched on the chairs, resting heads against the windows or hanging over the armrests. I’ve noticed that the road is not that easy and paved anymore. The bus was jumping on the stones, dust was coming from the wheels and there were cliffs on the sides of the road. Somewhere at the bottom you could see the river waters sparkling in the darkness. It was not the lowland anymore. We were getting closer and closer to the mighty Himalayas.

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