Hello again, and for this my 25th blog I’m going to concentrate solely on our 5 days in “Vegas baby” as we had an amazing time and there is a lot to tell! We arrived on the Thursday after we’d been to the very underwhelming Hoover Dam and I was delirious with excitement as we drove down the strip towards our first hotel, Circus Circus. For Sally’s birthday I had surprised her and booked 3 nights for us at the Bellagio so we only stayed at Circus Circus...

After Texas, we entered New Mexico. I had visions of vast nothingness, filled with sand, millions of cacti and the odd American Indian. I was close, but it’s much more beautiful and interesting than that. We started off in the South East at a place called Carlsbad (not Carlsberg unfortunately). Carlsbad Caverns National Park covers 73sq miles and includes 100 underground caves – that’s all we knew before we got there. When we got there I rushed us in, bough...

Greetings once again. We are now on our way from Vegas, where we spent Sally’s birthday, to the Grand Canyon, and then heading south through Arizona before arriving in San Diego, in a few days time. I last left you with thoughts of our cockroach visitors in Disney World, but I need you to now take your tourist hat off, forget all you’ve heard or done before and come with me on a journey through the more unknown America – the wilderness, the deserts, the c...

Well, aren’t you lucky having your third blog this week?!! And, there’s even another one coming in the next few days that will take you from Orlando to the present day!! So this blog starts with us boarding our twelve flight, so far, to Miami from Los Angeles. It might sound odd that we didn’t just start our 10 weeks drive from LA and finish in LA but there are 2 reasons why we decided to start in Miami. But we thought it would be best to get to Orlando ...

So after our eleventh flight landed in Los Angeles, Sally couldn’t contain her excitement, as her dad had also flown to LA to see us. She moved like a gazelle through the various halls and once she saw his face through the glass door started running towards him. It was all very emotional and so being a gentleman I let Sally and her dad catch up while I collected our bags. After waiting for an hour for our bags we drove to our hotel in Santa Monica and went for...