Another day, another surprise. "Garden of the Gods". Never heard of it. Well you wouldn't would you unless you were a local. No signs off...

Our final drive east, from Alamosa to Pueblo, over our last mountain pass (at least until we head west again in Canada), and leaving the...

Sometimes I love this "zen traveling" (ie with no fixed idea of where we are going and very little research on what we will find), or...

Yes, I know I'm an idiot and it's totally cheesy, but you just have to make fool of yourself at Four Corners, the only place in the USA...

Another day, another magnificent National Park (although I do have one gripe National Park Service, but I'll come to that later). Zion...

Not much happened yesterday, unless you count the removal team removing all the possessions from our house ready for the completion of...

OK, so the tiny part of Arizona passed through was memorable only for the incomprehensible actions of the highway police. Having made the...

I really do think this is a magical place. Home of the Timbisha Shoshone people for countless generations it is also an example of...

Schoolboy or schoolgirl error, drive an hour past Bakersfield yesterday to shorten today's drive. Into the mountains again we go, to a...

So today is National Parks Week here in the good ol' USA. Which somewhat bizarrely (to us) seems to include a promotion to encourage...

The laundry is done, we have clean clothes again, and the batteries are recharged from gentle strolling around Paso Robles and San Luis...

Nareesa's very happy; the sun is shining, the air is warm and the rain is a distant memory. 24ºC in the shade and a beautiful old town to...

OMG! Well that was exciting! A fabulous Spanish tapas meal was followed by a restrained glass of wine in the Acme Bar (yes it really was...

No more trees! (for now). Today I is mostly talking about penal reform! Well, not really (well, a bit), but, as any aficionado of this...

Blimey, this redwood forest goes on a bit! We're less than 200 miles from San Francisco and still surrounded by giant redwoods. We even...

Today, I is mostly talking about trees! Big trees, massive trees, veritable giants of trees. Come to think of it, giants of anything!...

Before I forget again (which I did yesterday - must have been the wine!), over the weekend we spent a rather splendid afternoon at a...

Home of the University of Oregon and home of our friends Mary & Wayne and their daughter Monica. We last saw Mary and Wayne in 2003 in...

Mostly a travel day today, but with a few stops along the way, from Washington to Oregon. Not much to say so I shall (mostly) keep my...

2ºC as we crossed the mountains yesterday. 22ºC today! Funny old world. What an absolutely glorious day. What an absolutely glorious...