Early start this morning waking up at 6.45, then just as we were getting ready we heard a strange noise coming from the window by stephs bed. It was a frog or a toad croaking away as if to wake us up! Natures alarm! We got ready then I went to reception to get some wifi to upload the last two days blog posts as we've struggled for wifi for the last 24 hours and to be honest I was too busy in Vegas to upload! When I get back I'll do a check through and upload some better photos. We've got a load spread over two cameras, my iPhone and video camera. It's been easier for me to upload the ones from my iPhone over the wifi rather than faff with sd cards, but to ... read more

So today has been loads of fun I really love Vegas. We decided to split up today which was great for a bit of space. Kerry went off on her travels and met back up with us for lunch about 1pm in Caesars Palace. Steph and I spent some time in the room sorting out our bags first thing after a lie in to figure out how much weight we had left in our bags for shopping today. We need up leaving the hotel room about 10.30 and saw Kerry downstairs am hour and half after she left us earlier. We headed out through the Bellagio hotel where we are staying and it took about five mins at least to get out of the hotel. I started filming on my video camera going through the display ... read more

We left the wigwam motel early about 8.20 and stopped to fill up on fuel. We've worked out its about $45 to fill up a tank which is about £27 so it's probably about 40% of the price back home. We'd worked out using a ful calculator back home that the trip should cost us about £350 in fuel which is about $585. It's definitely going to be significantly cheaper than that. We were going to work it out but we've lost track of what we've spent but estimations based on the first day using a full tank and doing approx 300 miles are that it will cost us about $405/£240 based on doing 2700 miles as we're taking the longer detour up through Yosemite to Tahoe, ending San Francisco or Frisco as a taxi driver ... read more

We set off from the blue swallow motel about 9am after grabbing some coffee from the office and cinnamon muffins that nancy had made. We hit the road and for the next 100 miles drove through some of the best scenery we've seen on the trip. It was classic Route 66 country or what I imagined when I first started planning the trip. There were desert plains on the left and right dotted with green bushes and cacti. The sky was cloudy when we left but again turned blue with hot sun after an hour or so. We drove through Santa Rosa and followed the signs to the blue hole. It's something I'd read about before we left. It's basically a deep hole in the ground filled with water. When we drew up the facts read ... read more

Show me the way to Amarillo! - today's blog is written by steph..... Well the title says it all really, today is all about heading to Amarillo Texas, no doubt with some cheesy renditions of the song along the way. We all managed to get up fairly early today which will give us a good head start to getting there? We are becoming experts at working the waffle machine now (we will be full on Americans soon) 3 waffles made between us without any leaking or smoking! Kerry is starting off the driving this morning which she is pleased about as driver picks the music, needless to say she has lined up all her road trip driving tunes for car karaoke throughout the morning. Since leaving Oklahoma City and joining Route 66 again, it is exactly ... read more