Vegas,here we come What a great morning, the hues and colours of the nearby canyon walls are beautiful with their changing tones. We walk across the road do our laundry, have some breakfast and leave Springdale heading towards Vegas via the Valley of Fire and it looks like another warm day ahead us as the scenery starts to change from lush green trees and grass to a dry arid landscape and as we head into the Valley of Fire we are surrounded by rocks of a glorious deep red in colour, some are laced with multi layers of white clay slicing through the red, it looks hot and it is hot! We stop at a rest point to admire the beauty and there are ground squirrels everywhere running around searching for shade, they run in the ... read more

Another early morning as we head towards Monument Valley, Utah/Arizona and as we leave the Grand Canyon the scenery changes from glorious green forests and pastures to a dry arid landscape. Along the roadside there are Indian stalls set up selling thier wares, and as we approach the Valley, we site large sandstone formations reaching hundreds of feet into the air. We enter The Navajo Tribal Park and again it is bloody hot, tourist everywhere and the landscape is breathtaking. We arrive just on lunchtime and are unable to book into our room until 3 o'clock, we sit outside and have some lunch while Indian flute music is played in the background, it sounds so peaceful and spiritual and a serene calmness engulfs me, the stress and worry of the outside world disappears and I feel ... read more

Route 66 Up very early today and its still bloody hot! Grand Canyon here we come! We travel along Route 66, the roads are old and windy and it's not helping my anxiety, but I push on. We are just about to pull into the old gold mining town of Oatman and we can't get through because the road is blocked by Donkeys, we stop the car and next thing we know a donkey has his head in the driver's side window wanting a pat, they're so cute...... ok donkeys go away now we need to get through, no seriously, enough donkeys! Next thing we know we have a few other cars behind us a man gets out and says he needs to get through and starts to shoo them away, we drive about 400 metres ... read more

Rocks,Valleys,Deserts and apple pie Another early day....... it's killing me! We set out early to miss the traffic and today we're off to Twentynine Palms CA with a few detours on the way. We detour off to Julian, a lovely little town which is known for its famous Apple Pie, we stop for breakfast and the cafe is all decked out like something out of the prairie, it is amazing and of course had to get an Apple Pie. The drive from San Diego to Julian has taken us through some lovely countryside with rolling hills with small forested areas in between, but, we've now left Julian and the surroundings are changing and it starts with a few big boulders here and there and now we're travelling through some of the rockiest, barren country side we ... read more

Had a little sleep in today......yeah!, after breakfast we make our way to La Brae tar pits, mmmm, there is a story to this trip. As you know in the USA you drive on the opposite side of the road (well,to us it's opposite), and in some carparks in LA they have spikes along the driveways for those drivers who try drive in the wrong way, Now, you know what I'm going to tell you, right, yep you guessed it, Steve for some reason went into the left lane and the parking attendant, a little man came running out of his little hut yelling STOP STOP, oh no, to late and Steve drive over the spikes, "oh oh, 2 flat tyres", the two front wheels went straight over the spikes. We get the car to a ... read more