The Camaro

Tuesday, June 28th, 2011

Just a quick note on car rental companies. I called up Avis in the USA to rent a Ford Mustang. They assured me there was...

Got accepted at Harvard!

Sunday, June 26th, 2011

or not! I wish. Just a quick stop in Cambridge, Boston, to tour around the World famous Harvard campus. This is actually the library. Pretty...

Skyscrapers

Friday, June 24th, 2011

First stop on the Camaro trip (see 2 posts ahead in my blog), New York City. First time for my cousin here and just enough...

The White House

Saturday, June 18th, 2011

Back in DC, just for a few days, before heading back on the road. I’d forgotten just how beautiful DC was. With its Federal buildings...

Henry’s new Beemer

Tuesday, May 31st, 2011

I’m leaving Vancouver for a month, and the first stretch of my journey takes me to Washington DC, where my uncle lives and works. Being...

Deception Pass

Friday, May 27th, 2011

As we were driving back from the Olympic Peninsula, we took a boat back to the mainland and went through the Deception Pass. The landscape...

Olympic Rainforest

Wednesday, May 25th, 2011

The Olympic Peninsula is formed of a tropical rainforest, right next to the ocean. It’s very green down there and I love the contrast here...

Pacific Ocean

Tuesday, May 24th, 2011

For the first time in 9 months (almost) on the West Coast, I made it to the Pacific Coast, to see the Ocean. Sure, there...

The Boeing Factory

Monday, February 21st, 2011

On the way to Vancouver from Seattle, we stopped over to visit the Boeing factory, where some of the biggest planes on the planet are...

Parents at the Needle

Sunday, February 20th, 2011

The Devellennes roots have flown over to the West Coast for a belated visit of their son #3, namely, me As they’re flying in to...

Mount Baker

Friday, February 4th, 2011

I recruited 4 people from CS and my friend Anne-Marie to go to Baker this weekend. With a van-full, we set to drive down to...

EMP Seattle

Thursday, December 30th, 2010

The EMP (Experience Music Project Museum) is located in the Space Needle quarter in Seattle. It’s got a really futuristic shape, and allows visitors to...

The Farmer’s Market

Wednesday, December 29th, 2010

Apart from the space needle, Seattle is well known for its Farmer’s Market, which is located by the shoreline, in downtown Vancouver. It’s a real...

The Monorail

Tuesday, December 28th, 2010

We have the skytrain in Vancouver (still to get a decent shot of it) and they have the monorail in Seattle. It’s only one line...

Seattle skyline

Sunday, December 26th, 2010

It’s Christmas so I’m taking a week off work, well deserved, after 3 months already in Vancouver and lots of work done! My friends Phil...

Mammoth Hot Springs

Sunday, October 17th, 2010

Since it was freezing in the mornings when camping, I was up really early every day in Yellowstone. On my last morning in Yellowstone I...

Elks in Yellowstone

Sunday, October 17th, 2010

In the Mammoth area of North Yellowstone, it’s very common for Elks to just hang out on the lawns, in the morning, before people come...

Grand Prismatic Spring

Sunday, October 17th, 2010

This spring was probably my favourite in the whole of Yellowstone. It had an incredible palette of colours. I took some timelapse footage of this,...

Yellowstone Hotsprings

Sunday, October 17th, 2010

Yellowstone is the most volcanic active place in America, and features some of the most beautiful hotsprings in the World. This is just one of...

Moooooooose!

Sunday, October 17th, 2010

And my first face-to-face encounter with moose – they are quiet animals, and I didn’t hear or see them until I was about 5 meters...

Bear in the Tetons

Thursday, October 14th, 2010

I was hiking to Marion Lake, and suddenly I heard this noise in the bushes, guess what, it was a brown bear eating berries! How...

Grand Teton

Tuesday, October 12th, 2010

Made it to the Great National Parks of Wyoming. First one is Grand Teton National, with a peak at 3,775 feet (4,199 m). The weather...

Heading North

Tuesday, October 5th, 2010

After 2 days of canyoning, I’m back on the highways, driving North this time, through Utah (avoiding the Mormons and Salt Lake City…!), trying to...

Escalante National Park

Tuesday, October 5th, 2010

As I drove through Capitol Reef into Escalante, I discovered this intricate trail going up the mountain. This shot is actually taken once the car...

Flash Floods

Tuesday, October 5th, 2010

If you read the previous post, you’ll understand the importance of this shot. It was taken after I was caught in a storm in Glen...

Storm, Phase 2

Tuesday, October 5th, 2010

After crossing Lake Powell, I quickly went to the Visitor Center to ask about the best route to Capitol Reef National Park. The Park Ranger...

Lake Powell

Tuesday, October 5th, 2010

This lake divides Highway 95 from North to South. You therefore have to get a ferry across (for 25 dollars with a car) to make...

Glen Canyon

Tuesday, October 5th, 2010

Glen Canyon was the first sight I drove through on this epic day. A great early start to witness the beautiful morning colours of the...

Natural Bridges National Monument

Tuesday, October 5th, 2010

First National Park out of four, in one day! This region of Utah is called the “Canyonlands” – and you might imagine why! You drive,...

American Storm Coming!

Tuesday, October 5th, 2010

This is something you rarely see back at home. It’s one typical American Storm! It takes the shape of a wall of dark clouds, against...

More Autumn Colours!

Sunday, October 3rd, 2010

The loooong drive through the Colorado Mountains Range is almost over, but has been wonderful! The colours here are very impressive! Yellows, yellows, yellows! Can’t...

Telluride

Sunday, October 3rd, 2010

Telluride is a small town in the middle of the Rockies Range, right in the middle of Colorado! It’s really beautiful, as it’s isolated between...

Black Canyon

Sunday, October 3rd, 2010

Henry has left, I’m on my own, so I decided to go and check out this Canyon, 4 hours drive from Denver! It’s as impressive...

Ypsilum Peak

Friday, October 1st, 2010

Second (well, actually, third, because there was another one just before this one) 13,000ft summit today! A bit of a hike up this mountain, a...

Elks!

Friday, October 1st, 2010

At this time of year (and at dusk!) it’s very common to spot elks in the National Park. Every evening they come out when the...

Ida Peak

Friday, October 1st, 2010

After a 6 miles trek up the Ida trail, we finally got to our first 13,000ft summit, in the middle of the Rockies National Park....

Rocky Mountains National Park

Wednesday, September 29th, 2010

For the next 3 days my uncle and I are trekking through the Rocky Mountains National Park in Colorado. This park is located roughly about...

Independence Pass

Wednesday, September 29th, 2010

Independence Pass is the road which joins Aspen and the Eastern part of Colorado, and, as shown in the picture, it’s elevated at 12,095 Ft,...

Aspen, Colorado

Wednesday, September 29th, 2010

First time in Aspen, first thing we see, a fire drill downtown. Instead of featuring a picture of some posh street in this very favoured...

The Maroon Bells

Wednesday, September 29th, 2010

We’ve driven all the way to Aspen, Colorado, possibly one of the poshest ski resorts of the World. It’s Autumn (or Fall, in American) season...

The Great Mid West

Saturday, September 25th, 2010

After the Northeastern America, we’re finally driving South, through the infamous states of Minnesota, Iowa and Nebraska. The roads down this end of the continent...

Gotham City

Monday, September 20th, 2010

Finally made it to Chicago! After all these years of wanting to see this place, it’s done! One of the only big cities in the...

Driving a Porsche

Friday, September 17th, 2010

The lifestyle of a wealthy house includes one having to drive their Porsche around once in a while. And that’s exactly what I did today,...

Bloomfield Hills

Tuesday, September 14th, 2010

We’ve arrived in this suburb of Detroit called Bloomfield Hills, to the North of the city. It’s an upper class neighbourhood with villas way over...

Ann Arbour Stadium

Monday, September 13th, 2010

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor – what a place! With a 110,000 seat stadium, this town promised to be a real American student experience! We...

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