COUNTRY

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 […]

My Road Trip USA led to New Orleans a week before Mardi Gras Tuesday and that proved to be opportune. There were Mardi Gras parades and a great atmosphere, but without the massive crowds. Also I could book into a hotel without breaking the bank! The road journey from Memphis to New Orleans followed the I-55 Highway for […]

Memphis, Tennessee, is well known as the home of Elvis Presley and the place where Martin Luther King was assassinated, but what else does it have to offer? Visiting Memphis, the starting point on my Road Trip USA, was as much to do with picking up a hire car and getting over any jet lag, as it was to seeing the […]