The Mirage

Title – The Mirage
Date – April 1994
Location – Las Vegas - USA

Las Vegas is a party town and a great place to spend a day or two enjoying all the excesses on offer. It can be done in all sorts of different ways and with different budgets. Just as you can sit at the roulette table playing 50c chips side by side with someone playing US$5000 chips, you can stay in this town in some of the luxury hotels for relatively little cost and eat great food cheaply and if your budget will stretch even play a few hands of blackjack. Get into the right casino and project the right image; you’ll even get all your drinks free, or at most for the price of a tip.

Beyond The Blue has experience of all aspects of travel, we recommend that if your budget will stretch or if budgets are no object, you take the odd opportunity to spoil yourself a little and Vegas is a great place to do that, just make sure you leave your credit card locked in the room safe, so you can’t accidentally bet your credit limit on ‘red or black’.

Our Gap Year and Independent Travel Safety & Awareness workshop can help you with advice on every aspect of your trip and the experiences of our instructors will help you to better understand the excitement that you can expect when you set off.

Please visit our website at www.safegapyear.com

Image – ©Peter Mayhew

Yosemite National Park

Title – Yosemite National Park
Date – April 1994
Location - USA

The wild wild west is truly still alive and well and Yosemite National Park can really give you an insight into what the original pioneers must have felt like; the only difference being that you can now explore it in relative comfort and ease. But to get a real feel you have to set off and hike into the mountains and experience all the great views and wildlife encounters for yourself.

But sometimes comforts will make us complacent. Being in such a wild part of the world, yet having access to all modern amenities can give you a false sense of security and here in the heart of the Rockies there is still a substantial risk from the elements and the terrain, not to mention the bears.

But these risks are perfectly manageable and it’s perfectly feasible to overcome them. Taking advice from local rangers and information provided, will tell you to make plenty of noise to scare off bears before they approach you. As for the environment and the elements these you have to manage through good planning and obtaining good information. Plan within your physical limits and always let people know where you are going.

Beyond The Blue is a specialist training company that runs workshops concentrating on giving you the skills and information to plan and execute your travel safely and with confidence. Our Gap Year and Independent Travel Safety & Awareness workshops help you to manage the risk associated with your planned travel.

Please visit our website at www.safegapyear.com

Image – ©Peter Mayhew