After Texas we ventured into the deep South of the States. From Dallas we drove South East into Louisiana, crossed the State Line… Before stopping in the town of Shreveport for lunch. As we have now learnt to, we opened up TripAdvisor for, well, advice and were well served – being sent to CrawDaddy’s - ranked [...]
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Our sixth state! It’s true, everything is bigger here starting with the enormous wind farms we’ve drive past. And past, and past… We crossed the state line on Sunday and stayed overnight in Amarillo. Here’s the obligatory song… Today we drove across, frankly, boring countryside to arrive in a suburb of… And yes, the whole point [...]
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… Albuquerque. Here we are in the middle of New Mexico. In honour of arriving in the city with perhaps the best name in America I give you… and of course all 11 mins + of not to mention a primer on directions… and to wrap up,
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One of the joys of this trip has been making new friends and meeting up with those I have only previously known online. So east of San Francisco in the town of Manteca we had the real pleasure of meeting up with Micah Burke and his wife Shaina. I’ve known Micah for a number of years [...]
View PostThe last few days have been a long drive from the east of California through Nevada to Utah, just south of Salt Lake City. Here’s some pictures from the route.
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So three observations on driving in the U.S. Stop Signs are bizarre. Officially there’s a whole list of rules on who gives way to who. In reality it comes across as intensely polite inefficiency. Still, it means everyone is very careful. There are some very strange road laws. I got asked by a policeman to [...]
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hello everyone. We’re now well into our U.S. road trip. San Francisco is behind us and we’ve crossed into Nevada after a wonderful time in Nevada City with a blogging colleague/friend. I’ll try and keep writing as we move along although, understandably it will be less frequent. How is the holiday going, you ask? Well, [...]
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