Today was one of the big ones. We’d planned almost 10 hours of driving, close to 550 miles taking us from Arizona to California along the old Route 66 road, detouring to see a meteor […]
USA road trip
08/19: Houston, we have a problem*
*This post is not about Texas. And we were not murdered in our beds. The oldest church in America, the San Miguel Chapel dating back to the early 1600s, is in Santa Fe – things […]
07/19: Cripple Creek and the Phantom Canyon
Denver, Colorado to Santa Fe, New Mexico It is just a few short hours we’ve been in Denver not counting the ones spent sleeping, yet it feels like we’ve been here longer given the amount […]
06/19: I’ll be late for that, I can’t wait for that
I was sipping margarita when I wrote this, forgive me if it goes astray! Yesterday was tough, a much longer day than expected. A late start, detours and bad weather denied us our chance to […]
05/10: This is the road to hell
We’re starting to realise first days of this trip are challenging. They are perhaps closer to an expedition or rally than a vacation. When we first sat down and tried to map out a route […]