30th-31st Aug ’12 San Antonio, Texas Davey, Davey Crockett King of the Wild Frontier! Just had to get that out of the way as that song has been stuck in my head for days now! So we arrived in San Antonio after a hair-raising race track of a journey on various interstates as we approached the area. We stayed at the Travelodge on Broadway and 4th street which meant we were really close to the River Walk and The Alamo and after changing rooms as the one we were given wouldn’t lock we were ready to go out and find some tea. We had decided to save all The Alamo stuff for the next day as it was 5ish when we arrived, so we went to the River Walk instead. This is a loop of river ... read more

27th Aug ’12 Roswell, New Mexico Roswell is much larger than I expected, as we have arrived late yesterday we haven’t looked around properly yet, saving that for today, but we did pass McDonalds and Looci, it no longer looks like a space ship! I’m gutted!! They have built a kids play area onto it, how dare they?!! But the lamp posts all have alien heads so that’s good and Arby’s welcomes aliens! So it’s another blistering hot day in New Mexico so I don’t think my tin foil alien hat will see much action unless I want my brains well cooked, so it’s a good job I got a photo last night while I was outside watching the skies! Main Street seems to be where all the UFO shops and action is (the rest of ... read more

23rd Aug ’12 Tucson to Tombstone So we saddled up and rode on out of town, we had about 70 miles of desert to cross and the sun was high and hot! There was little to see but rocks, scrubby bush, mountains a ways off on the horizon and the shimmering heat on the trail. Luckily our car has air conditioning and we had plenty of drinks in the cool bag. Still it was a relief to pull into Tombstone – The Town Too Tough To Die! Our first stop was right on the outskirts of town, at the Boothill Graveyard – so named as most of the inhabitants died with their boots on. It was free to visit but for $3 you could get a leaflet with the layout and information on who was buried ... read more

17th Aug ’12 San Francisco to Los Angeles, California The CA Shuttle bus that we were taking today was due to arrive at 11.45am, we were there very early waiting and it eventually arrived at 12.45! All us hot and hassled passengers got on. There was no explanation as to why it was late. We were the first of 4 pick-ups in the city and then it was direct to Hollywood. Once we got to the last pick up and the bus was full a very jolly Mexican man got on and thanked us all for using his bus service. He then welcomed us to California and ‘our wonderful country of the United States’, no one said anything, he then explained that we would only stop once, ‘at a Burger King in the middle of nowhere’ ... read more

12th Aug ’12 Centralia to Olympia We were only going about 20 miles today! Hooray!! It was either stay here or have an extra night in Seattle, but as we have spent quite a bit of time there already we decided to try somewhere new instead. I even managed to get a haircut – no more lopsided scraggly knotted hair! Howard isn’t happy he reckons it’s too short, well I must admit I got a shock too when I saw how much she cut off but its in much better condition. Anyway we are staying in Olympia which is the capital of Washington State at the Olympia Plaza Hotel – which sounds grand but is actually more like an overgrown motel but with better furnishings. So we walked all over down town, which was very interesting ... read more