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From the journal

Stories from the road

Notes, routes and a few mistakes from a year of slow travel. Drag the cards or use the arrows.

A morning above the lake

The trail to the viewpoint, where to park and why it is worth starting before seven.

Finding the hidden falls

No signs, one fallen tree and a path you would miss from the road. Here is the way.

Three days in the valley

Where we camped, what we cooked and the one thing we will pack next time.

The coast road, slowly

Twelve stops in eighty miles, from tide pools to a bakery that sells out by ten.

Driving the empty road

Fuel, water and music for the longest stretch with no towns and no signal.

A day at the reserve

What a guided morning is really like, and how close you get to the animals.