Motorhome News from North America 2. More of Arizona plus Utah! 25th January - 3rd February 2006 ‘Hi! How are you folks doin’ today?’ There’s an Indian ‘Dream Catcher’ on the wall beside our bed, watching over our fortune. The spider’s web in the circle catches the bad dreams. Only good dreams work their way through a small hole in the centre and they evaporate to the Great Spirit with the morning sun. It’s there as a backup in case all else fails! Right now, we can’t believe our luck. ‘Pinch me - and I shall know it’s real.’ That’s the wonder around every corner of Arizona - and it’s all ours for the taking. _______________________________ Arizona is a desert wasteland, harsh and dramatic, with unimaginable extremes in climate and geology. Over a third of it ... read more

A New Year - January 2006 David and Janice take to the road again, this time across the Atlantic to North America in search of culture, knowledge and the thrill of the unexpected. After touring across Europe for eighteen months in a 23ft motorhome, they have found it hard to settle down to a normal life and normal routine in a normal house. But, it’s not for long. Plans for the second phase of their tour to ‘places to know better’, are fast taking shape and they‘re off again, motorhoming on yet another Continent. With hopes of an awe inspiring 18 month stay in North America, (though initially tied to a six month US Visa restriction) the clockwise itinerary will take them northwards following the Pacific coast from Phoenix, Arizona, to Vancouver, Canada, journeying right across ... read more

Motorhome News from Europe 36 Orkney 13th September Orkney - Isles of History The morning sun shone in greeting as we approached the grey exterior of Kirkwall, Orkney’s capital. But once inside the town we were stunned by an unexpected air of affluence. The red sandstone Cathedral of St Magnus stands proudly above Broad Street, bright with hanging baskets on smart Victorian buildings and elegant modern shops. Shrubs, trees and flowers adorn the town’s gardens and mature sycamores surround the ruins of the Earl’s Palace behind the Cathedral. The shops portray immediate evidence of Orkney’s successful craft tradition; it is famed for its jewellery, knitwear, glass, art and textiles. At first sight, the mainland of Orkney is a green continuation of the shining sea, with broad fertile pastures, cows and sheep and fields of barley rising ... read more

Motorhome News from Europe 34.Norway to Shetland August 2005Castaway nomads on Faroe - and onwards to Shetland Given the choice of staying in Norway or travelling on the ‘Norrona’ to Faroe and Iceland at the Ferry-Line’s expense, what would you do? When opportunity for adventure knocks we’re not known to be slow on the uptake! Arriving at the terminal for our ferry we were advised that forecast storms over Shetland would mean that we would not be able to leave Bergen. The ferry would skip Shetland and go directly to Faroe and Iceland. After some heated debate, the ferry operators offered us a choice: stay in Norway for another week (the ferry runs weekly) or travel today and hope that the weather improves sufficiently for us to land In Shetland before the ferry returns to Norway ... read more

Motorhome News from Europe 32. Norway 17th August 05 Around about the middle: Stjordal, Trondheim, Roros, Oppdal, Doverfjell, Dombas, Rondane Park, Vagamo and Lom. The school holidays have come to an end here and fields of buttercups have been sacrificed to the hay barns for the long winter ahead. The sun now sets at night and the martins and swallows are heading south as we prepare to travel with them for our migration across the North Sea, from Norway's beautiful Bergen, to Shetland, way to the north of Scotland, on the 23rd August. But there is still much to see and do before we leave these shores. Our campsite host at Stjordal, the local farmer and entrepreneur, had many strings to his bow; a carbon copy of our good friend Roy, back home at Little Lodge ... read more