We're now almost two days into our stay in Las Vegas and it has been awesome so far. This place is properly crazy and we love it! For a start, it is boiling hot (100 degrees fahrenheit to be precise). It literally feels like you are walking into a sauna out there. Apparently this is cool for the time of year, but we'll happily accept 'cool'. There are water spritzers on the streets, blowing out a fine, cool mist that is very welcome in the heat. We are staying i...

So sitting on our Grand Canyon train, on the Coconino carriage, with Mark as our guard, he said something very profound on the way back into Williams. Now those of you who know me well know that I have a terrible memory, but what he said was something a bit like this.... Life is not measured by how many breaths you take, but by how many moments take your breath away.... It was very apt, especially as The Canyon had taken the breath right out of our lungs! I'm ...

Today we went to the Grand Canyon. Before we left we decided it was either going to be a bit of a let down or it was going to defy all expectations. The latter feels like an understatement. It was the most amazing place. I actually felt quite overwhelmed when we arrived. It was just so vast and so beautiful. It is really impossible to try to describe. We had booked to travel to the Grand Canyon by train, as we felt like it would be a welcome break from driving. ...

Leaving the thunderstorms behind yet again, we headed into downtown Albuquerque, through the Nob Hill district. It was earlier than we usually leave as we knew we had a really long driving day and it was quiet as today is Memorial Day here. We chipped back into the old Route 66 and headed south west back towards Flagstaff, today's destination. We had driven down the Interstate yesterday to reach Acoma, so it was really nice to be cutting through all the other res...

Today was one of our shortest driving days - just 55 miles from Santa Fe to Albuquerque - so in true style we decided to add on an extra 100 mile round trip. We drove to Albuquerque then headed west to Acoma reservation and Sky City. New Mexico is the only American state that still recognises the indigenous Native American pueblos and there are 19 reservations in the state. Sky City in the Acoma reservation is the oldest continuously occupied place in the whole ...