All good things must come to an end, and so it was with our Road Trip USA. After seeing some of the most spectacular scenery that the USA has to offer, plus some surprisingly interesting cities, it was now just a matter of driving the final couple of hundred miles or so from the Grand Canyon […]
After covering almost 3,000 miles, our Road Trip USA was now heading to the two scenic big ones: Monument Valley and the Grand Canyon. Heading north from Chinle on the 6,000 ft high Arizonan plateau, and then just over the border into Utah, led to the remarkably familiar Monument Valley. Familiar from all the films and adverts […]
Decision time! Would the weather permit us to head north to the 6,000 foot high plateau-lands of Northern Arizona and some of the greatest scenery in the world, or would we have to travel along the low route via Southern Arizona to Las Vegas, the final destination in our Road Trip USA? The North-Eastern states of the […]
Everyone knows that Texas is big – really big! In fact it is about twice the size of Germany. But you only realise how big when you drive right across from east to west as we did on our Road Trip USA. We’d already driven nearly 400 miles across the state on the Houston and San Antonio sector of […]
Visiting the two largest cities in Texas, Houston and San Antonio, might not sound like such a good idea, but they were on the route for my Road Trip USA from Memphis to Las Vegas. The New Orleans section of our journey would take a lot of living up to, but I approached these Texan cities […]
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Heritage: Historic Environment Scotland versus National Trust for Scotland
When I think of Scotland, I have visions of ancient castles and historic battlefields set against a background of picturesque lochs and mountains. I make a point of visiting Scotland at least once a year, being drawn back by its great heritage and scenery. Heritage is very important for Scotland, both culturally and with respect to its economy […]