Motorhome News from North America 45 29th June 2007 Home at last. Immense shocks awaited our return to England with the realisation that our memories of this land had not faded nor our worst fears abated with time. Traffic swarmed the M25 from Heathrow, aggressive and impatient, travelling at high speeds we were unaccustomed to, too many people, hurrying, scurrying, in too small a space, all bound with the frustration of congestion and too few hours in each day for both work and play. Out on the fringes of London’s arteries, traffic slowed a knot or two, the roads narrowed perceptibly and the lush green of England’s new summer filled the air with its own brand of beauty: of broad-leaf trees, voluptuous hedges bounding tiny fields, small compact towns and villages, houses of brick and tile, ... read more

Motorhome News from North America 43 5th May - 16th May 2007 Experienced 24ft Winnebago for Sale As our week in Rapid City wore on, we were tempted to reconsider our strategy to sell the motorhome. Our advertising had produced just one unsatisfactory enquiry over the internet and the T-Mobile phone remained silent. Our options were to continue on to uninhabited Yellowstone National Park or return south again to Denver and a larger urban market. With considerable reluctance, we chose the latter, surrendering all hope of experiencing the magic of Yellowstone again, and placed advertisements in Denver newspapers and websites for the coming Thursday. The web turned up two enquiries from ‘Craig’s list’ in the Denver area within 24 hours and the issue was sealed; we would head south again, retracing our footsteps through Wyoming back ... read more

Motorhome News from North America 41 13th April - 23rd April 2007 The Great Canyons of Utah and the Colorado River Snow covered the ground when we woke at Colorado National Monument. Visibility was down to 50 yards and thick grey clouds threatened worse to come. We left early to avoid being snowed in, wending our way down to the valley floor, heading for Utah, 100 miles across wide open flats, out beyond Grand Junction into the sparse grasslands, a sea of white as far as the eye could see in the brightening sky, the first rays of morning sunlight striking the mountains to the north. We sighted only two dwellings over the next 70 miles along the freeway; enormous ranches no doubt, but no signs of cattle, and roadside warnings; ‘No services for 56 miles’. ... read more

Motorhome News from North America 39 25th March - 4th April 2007 From the Texan Heavens to the Depths of the Earth in New Mexico We have been ‘on the road’ in North America for 450 days now, yet each day is still too short and each week not long enough for all we set out to achieve. It now becomes clear that we will never see it all; we cannot absorb all of the dramatic short history of this continent’s rapid change, but perhaps at least we will have satisfied our curiosity about some of the American myths we English cling to. Our week started in Davis Mountains State Park, a delightfully wooded area set amongst the southwest Texas hills, with magnificent mountain walks on rocky paths where mule deer grazed peacefully amongst the cactus ... read more

Motorhome News from North America 37 1st March - 12th March 2007 Looking for birds in Costa Rica There’s a peaceful little country in Central America sandwiched between Nicaragua and Panama, swept by the blue and enchanting Caribbean Sea off its eastern shores and the mighty Pacific Ocean out to the west. Come, join us in Costa Rica, a mere 10 degrees north of the equator, clothed in green from its volcanic peaks and mountain- top rainforests to the mangrove swamps and sandy beaches where it meets the sea. This is the dry season in Costa Rica. The other is wet. Shimmering heat rose from the runway as we landed at San Jose in the early afternoon, welcomed by blue skies and cloud-shrouded mountains on the horizon. We had not seen a hill much bigger than ... read more