Today was full of canyons and good food. We started out with a bit of a wander round Bryce Canyon before driving over to Zion National Park. This was my first long drive in the States and it was pretty easy. The route was mostly straight and with cruise control activated there's not much you have to do aside from constantly remind yourself to pay attention to the road! At Zion NP we stopped quickly to look at the Checkerboard Mesa. The wind and weathering have c...

We decided to go "off-Klaus" and take our own side trip today. The hotel we were staying at in Page, AZ had tons of photos up of beautiful red rock formations and we wanted to go see them for ourselves. A t-shirt in the gift shop revealed that the red rocks were "Antelope Canyon" (not a mystical talking t-shirt, it just had a picture on it...) so we decided to head out there. Antelope Canyon is located on Navajo land so tours are operated by Navajo Nation Parks ...

Today was a bucket list day. Not only did Dan and I get to see the Grand Canyon but we also drove on part of old Route 66 (yes, both of us, I did it too, yay!) BTW, for this blog entry's title to have any chance of working you have to saying it in a Kiwi accent... We started the day with a hearty breakfast at Cruiser's Route 66 Cafe (http://www.cruisers66.com). I was pretty pleased with this place as I saw it on Google maps and decided to give it a go and it tur...

Today was the day I finally stopped wussing out and took Senna for a little spin. After completing challenge 1 "back out of parking space without knocking over shiny Harley" my confidence was up a little. Instructor Dan talked me through a drive around the block. I could do it all: Drive on the correct side of the road, left turns, right turns, reversing, speed limits, you name it... Except stop signs. I ran my first stop sign. D'oh! Good job the fuzz weren't abo...

Next stop after LA was Palm Springs. I've got to say that I wasn't particularly looking forward to this stop. I didn't know much about it other than rich people go there to play golf and it's hot because it's in the desert... I was pleasantly surprised though! Dan had consulted Klaus (our guide book, we called him Klaus, I'm not telling you why, it's a long story that you had to be there for...) and come up with a lovely little side trip for our stay, but more ab...