Jimmy Bernard

This is Nine years later and with the woman that is sharing my life that I decided to come back to the United Stated. But this time, it will not be in the same line as an organized trip. The United States must be discovered at your own speed. During my first trip I was a bit frustrated to not visit all the places I expected to see. This time I drew the trip from A to Z! An objective was also to hike in each Park around 4 hours.
My first visit in 2002 still is very present in my memory. This is a real pleasure to come back in such wonderful places besides when it is in couple. This was a 25 days trip, enough to visit a lot of National Park. After a few days in San Francisco, we rented a car and drove to visit both Sequoia and Yosemite National Park (NP). This was not the easiest days of our trip since we slept a few days in Campground. This was also the occasion to meet wonderful peoples in the only Inn available for 70 Miles around.
Then, we took the direction of Lake Tahoe this time to sleep in a Hotel! After that we went through Bodie State Park (SP), Mono Lake and slept at Mammoth Lakes. The day after was the tougher one with the crossing of the Death Valley: 500 Miles, a dozen of places to visit with a fifteen minutes hike each time under 100°F. Nevertheless it was a real pleasure to end this day with our arrival in Las Vegas where a beautiful hotel was waiting for us (The Palms). Our room was offering a wonderful view on the Strip! After a quick visit in Casinos… we took the direction of Bryce Canyon NP (with an unforgettable hike), Capitol Reef SP, Arches NP, Canyon Lands NP, Monument Valley Tribal Park (TP)… Page and the Lake Powell, Horse Shoe Bend and the best place we had the occasion to visit in the whole trip: Antelope Canyon TP. To finish with Parks, we spent 2 days in the Grand Canyon NP where I even had the occasion to meet an old friend I hadn’t seen for several years! As if being in the Grand Canyon the same day was not enough, we both chose the same hike (among 10) and met while hiking down the Canyon. We finished our trip with 4 days in Los Angeles where we visited Universal Studios Park.
That’s it… another trip behind us… even if this is kind of sad, when looking at all the pictures we took, we feel very lucky for the chance we had to visit such wonderful places. If you still think that United States are only what we can see through American TV Shows, please just take 5 minutes to look for some pictures of places I mentioned above. I am sure you will be surprised!