Cumulative miles driven: 4,721 Death Valley National Park is less than a hundred miles from Las Vegas and covers an area of well over three million acres. There are around a thousand miles of paved and dirt track roads (some needing a 4x4 vehicle) to explore within the 5,000 plus square miles of this protected area. There is plenty to see and over two days we covered around 300 miles within and around the park boundaries and could have seen more given some extr...

Cumulative miles driven: 4,432 Las Vegas can be a bit of a culture shock as it is like nowhere else in the USA. In fact, it is probably like nowhere else on this planet. The scale of the big casinos sitting on 'the strip', or South Las Vegas Boulevard as it is officially known, is staggering and each one of them is busy. From the north end of 'the strip' starting with the iconic Stratosphere down to Mandalay Bay it is about a five mile walk but if you choose to...