Lake Powell is big. I mean, incredibly big. Bigger, even, than the biggest thing you can imagine. It's rather large, is what I'm trying to say. To give you a rough idea of the scale of Lake Powell, I'd like to point you at the Western shoreline of the contiguous United States - you know, that wiggly bit of coast that stretches all the way from Tijuana on the Mexican border to Canada 1293 miles further North. In fact, let's throw in the entire coastline of Hawaii ...

It has been quite an easy going day. From Phoenix this morning, the coach took us through the beautiful red rock mountains to an old Indian settlement known as Montezuma's Castle. Just outside Camp Verde, this place just has to be seen to be believed. It's one of those attractions which people tell you about and you're not quite sure whether they're making it up or not. Originally built by the Sinagua Indians during the fifteenth century and declared as a nationa...

Over the last two days I've headed south from Las Vegas into Arizona and will be doing a whistle-stop tour of the state, taking in a few of the more well known national parks and tourist spots before my schedule pushes me on into Utah where I have a hotel booked in a few days up in a place called Kanab. To be honest, Arizona hadn't been one of the places I had planned on visiting while in the US - so my knowledge of the state was limited and I was very much going...