Hey24/09/10 Our long drive North has started, Passing through the Southern states of Georgia and the Carolina's on the way up the East coast. Our journey passed the ex Cotton plantations still surrounded by fluffy white cotton fields now private farms, We stopped to do some cotton picking ourselves before staying in Savannah a picturesque city of a French design and a sober New Orleans feel, Myrtle beach (a chavy beach resort) and then the highly prestigious Oute...

Hey07/09/10 Back in the good old USA,We hired a car and headed down to Key West at the end of a 106 mile necklace of tiny islands linked together by bridges and the southern most point of United States, it's a real laid back arty Bohemian place and a water sport Mecca , Beautiful wooden houses with rap around veranda's from the turn of the last century, the home of Earnest Hemmingway, loads of 6 toed cats (spooky) and Key lime pie. After 3 days we changed to Key ...

Hola /Hi 10/08/10 We had to get our plastic back and needed to get into main stream civilisation again. The cheapest option was Miami, We didn't realise how much we'd miss the card and with limited cash we made our way to the United States, via Nicaragua and El Salvador. We would say we are in America ?, but we are not so sure, 70% of the locals speak Spanish as there first language and the natives are mostly Cuban, a strange multi cultural set up. We had to h...

Hola Gringo's 07/07/2010 We flew into Cancun in the Mexican Yucatan, Sun shine, Powder white sand, Turquoise sea's and Package holiday makers abound, Brits, Euros', Loads of Americans and even the odd Russian. The locals are still cleaning up after hurricane Alex and the tropical storm which followed a few days later, They are getting on top of it now and the sea is settling down, So we dived, Some great corals and colourful fish, We couldn't believe how cold ...

Welcome Y'all22/06/2010 Leaving El Paso on another vast desert journey, The game of I spy was banned, R, road, C, Car, T truck, T P, telegraph pole, D ,desert, then Oonagh couldn't see MB, Magic bus and the game was over, (We know how to enjoy ourselves). We arrived in San Antonio to see the Alamo, "Remember the Alamo" they cry, Its now a rebuilt court yard and a small chapel in the middle of a money spinning commercial hub, Apart from the commemorative...