As this is our 8th trip to USA and we have visited many of the 50 states - 44 to be exact! Some states we have visited several times. Today we travelled about 580km and visited 2 new states. Our route was a bit out of the way for where we are eventually heading but the chance to visit 2 more states was too good ignore. We left Colorado Springs after breakfast and headed east towards the Kansas border. The scenery in the Northern Plains, as this area is known, wa...

When we woke up this morning the weather was rainy and miserable. We were a bit disappointed as we didn't know if the weather conditions would allow us to do what we hoped to. Most travellers have a list of things they would like to do and places they would like to visit - their Bucket List. We have been fortunate enough to be able to tick off many of the things on our bucket lists and today we hoped Greg would get to tick one more off his list. We drove out of...

After a couple of photos of our motel, we hit the road - 380 mile to drive today, about 611km! This was to be a travelling day between Salt Lake City and Colorado Springs, too far to go in one hop so another day of 230 mile (370km) on Saturday. We left town heading south-east and it wasn't long before we could see snow on the slopes in the distance. There were sprinklings of snow in the pine trees by the side of the road so we were not sure if road conditions wo...

Our first visit to Salt Lake City was in 1978, almost 40 years ago. We revisited in 2009 on our motorbike trip and now we find ourselves here again. This time it is to visit with Terry and Shirley Parker, friends from Australia, who are staying here with locals for a week. The locals are Lyn and Val Hooper who have had a long association with the Qld POlice Service through Hilton Buckley and Gabe Jose - police friends from back home. Our first stop after checki...

Even though we had 552 km to travel, we didn't make an early start. We left the hotel about 9am and headed back to Carson City for breakfast. We had spotted Mom and Pop's Diner on Monday and decide to give it a go for breakfast - we were not disappointed. We checked out the Governor's Mansion before heading out of town. We thought that Carson City was a very liveable city and could understand why Elizabeth's mother (they call her Momma), would be happy living the...