This morning we grabbed a quick coffee and headed off south towards Texas. We followed the range of hills which were attached to Sandia Peak on our left, and had what should really be described as ‘cowboy country’ for the rest of the view. We did pass several signs offering 20-50 acres for $18000. Not a bad deal but there is nothing out here. We made it to the town of Truth Or Consequence. Yup. It did have a Denny’s, and as the twins had not tried one befo...

Today began bright and early as Katie had a horse trail ride booked for 8am and Matt and I had managed to book a Jeep Tour of White Mesa and New Mexico for the same time. We all left Sue with her feet propped up on the bed with her book, the TV remote and her phone within reach. (Katie, by the way loved her trail ride and enthused effervescently about it for the remainder of the day). We met Clint in the lobby and he took us out for the next ‘four hours’. Un...

For some reason Katie declined my offer of an early dawn start to get more photos of The Grand Canyon so I was by my lonesome this morning. Still, I did get a coffee to keep me company and managed to get a few more shots. We left the Canyon after breakfast and continued to head south out of the National Park and then east down the interstate towards Albuquerque. The drive was supposed to only take about 4-5 hours but with the traffic ended up taking us just over...

I woke Katie up early this morning and we went to get some photos of The Grand Canyon at dawn. It was about -3C but we did manage to get some fairly decent shots. After breakfast, we left Sue and went to do a load of washing near the campground. This process of finding the place, getting enough quarters to get powder, run the machine and the dryer took a fair bit of our morning. We got back and played both ‘Bang!’ And ‘Cockroach Poker’ for a while and the...

Once again we braved the trials of the US highway system. The road out of Vegas was easy enough, however getting fuel turned out to be harder than any of us thought. Firstly, we had to remember which side the fuel tank was on. Right side, step 1. Secondly, we had to find out how to open the fuel cap. Open driver door, check EVERY possible switch, knob, handle. Nothing. Check passenger side. Nothing. Check car remote. Nothing. Check fuel cap. Oh, just need to push...