Hello peeps, Well we only have 2 weeks left now, so this will be one of my last blogs. It’s been a fast and furious couple of weeks and even though most of it has been spent in the car, trying to get further east, I still have a lot to tell you. Yesterday was Independence Day in the USA and I had decided that Colonial Williamsburg would be the perfect place to spend it for a couple of reasons. 1) Virginia is where Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the Declaration...

Hello, hello, Well since our disastrous day at Oregon Caves we’ve managed to get north and east through Washington (the state, not the city!), Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska and Iowa, Illinois and into Missouri! It’s meant long hours in the car but we’ve needed to make up some time seeing as we’ve only got a few weeks left before we are home again. The day after Oregon Caves we took a scenic drive over to Crater Lake, one of Oregon’s fam...

Hello again, this time from Oregon. Today we’ve been to Crater Lake, which was just beautiful, but more about that later. I’m going to start this blog on the day we left Las Vegas on June 2nd and headed into Arizona, to the Grand Canyon. To sum up the Grand Canyon in one word would be huge. It’s a massive 10 miles wide and 1 mile deep and has 277 miles of Colorado River running through it. It’s also 2 billion years old. Impressive huh? Not as impressive...

Well, we’ve made it to my 21st blog so far and I’m going to concentrate solely on our 5 days in Vegas as we had an amazing time and there is a lot to tell! We arrived on the Thursday before my 30th birthday - the reason we were in Vegas. That morning we’d been to the very underwhelming Hoover Dam and I was delirious with excitement as we drove down the strip towards our first hotel, Circus Circus. For my birthday Kav had surprised me and booked 3 nights fo...

After Texas, we entered New Mexico. To my recollection, I had never been to New Mexico before so I was quite excited. I had visions of vast nothingness, filled with sand, millions of cacti and the odd American Indian. I was close, but it’s much more beautiful and interesting than that. We started off in the South East at a place called Carlsbad (not Carlsberg unfortunately). Carlsbad Caverns National Park covers 73sq miles and includes 100 underground caves –...