This is a sponsored collaboration with Travel Planners – A Dream American Road Trip
Yes, it’s at the top of my list. I’m a sucker for any teen drama set on the Upper East Side (XOXO) and I want to pound the pavements ladened with Macy’s brown bags. For somewhere I’ve never been it certainly has that gravitational pull that keeps calling my name.
An ideal day in the city would be grabbing a huge stack of pancakes with lashings of maple syrup and bacon at some diner joint, we’d then go seek the view from the top of the rock as the sunrises over the city, then we’d have to go ice-skating at the Rockerfellar Centre (if we were there at Christmas), the afternoon would be spent shopping with a few rooftop drinks at somewhere like Butter (if you know the reference, you know!) and then I’d love to travel back to Williamsburg to seek out some of the cool breweries in Brooklyn and then watch the sky fall over the Manhattan skyline.
I’m sure there’s a thousand more things I’d love to do in the city but for now, I won’t get too greedy!
If there’s one time of year I would chose to travel to the USA on a road trip, it would have to be during fall. THOSE LEAVES. Where the towns turn orange in anticipation for Autumn, I couldn’t think of a better place to walk around drink the most basic of basic drinks such as pumpkin spiced latte and soaking up all the autumnal festivities.
The architecture of where old meets new in Boston is something that has long since inspired me. The way places like Harvard and Yale University on TV programmes are depicted I would quite happily move in the halls of residence.
A trip to Boston wouldn’t be complete with a trip to see the Red Socks play too! I’m not massively in to sports, but you can’t go all that way to not watch a ball game at the oldest ball park in America, could you now?
I’d have to hit Middle America for some cosy, winter log cabin vibes. There’s some amazing ski resorts in Keystone & Winter Park so I can fulfill this lifelong fantasy of hunkering down at a ski resort. Whilst I’ve only ever ski-ed once (okay, that was on a dry slope) I’ve got the bug to want to do it for real.
New York & Boston, I am sure, are very fast-paced and whilst I love the buzz of a city, I can only just about bear it for a long weekend. An escape to the woods would without a doubt make my heart sing. Plus, learning a cool new sport would certainly make for some great stories!
Imagine a hot cup of coco served with a mountain of whipped cream and marshmallows, those cosy, fleece lined socks and pyjamas and a roaring fire, overlooking a snowy mountain scape. The snow slowly starts to fall from the sky as you watch it magically fall. Have I sold it to you yet?
As we made our way over to the West Coast I’d have to take in the sights and sounds of San Fran. Here I can get a little warmth and retrace footsteps of Mia Thermopolis of The Princess Diaries fame (yes, you did read that right.)
Not only am I ready to eat a lot of shrimp down on Fisherman’s Wharf whilst soaking up the West Coast sunrays, I also want to head to Alcatraz as it’s somewhere that has always fascinated me. I wanna ride trams up the many, many hills and whizz back down again on bicycles. I want to sit at the bottom of the golden gate bridge with a beer and watch the day turn to night.
I think this is a city that I could well and truly get on board with, without feeling like I was hemmed in.
After stomping around the US, it would only be fair to myself (and my feet!) to take a well-earned rest on a gorgeous Caribbean island where I could indulge in the all inclusive lifestyle, by the sea, dipping my toe in every five minutes when I got hot and generally just being chilled AF. Having been to Jamaica, Mexico and the Dominican Republic – I think I’d like to try Barbados or the Bahamas. I can’t decide which one!
Bee
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