Our visit to Chicago is our last city on this USA trip and we can only agree with Frank Sinatra - 'My kind of town, Chicago is!' We knew very little about this city before this visit. We knew the baseball teams were the Cubs and the White Sox. Of course we had heard of the Chicago Bulls and the great Michael Jordan and Aussie Luc Longley. We also knew about a sculpture in the city called Cloud Gate or more fondly known as 'the Bean'. Now it was time to explore ...

Folks of our era will remember American sitcom 'Happy Days'. It cashed in on the nostalga of the 1950s when life was much simpler in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. You know the one - The Fonz aka Arthur Fonzarelli the Mr Cool of his day, Richie Cunningham and his two side kicks Potsey Webber and Ralph Malph. Well being in Milwaukee we hoped to find The Fonz. But where to start? The obvious place to start looking was the Harley Davidson Museum because The Fonz was a bi...

The 3rd February 1959 - the day the music died. Remember Don Mclean's hauntingly lyrical and nostalgic 1971 song American Pie eulogising the tragic deaths in a plane crash of rock n' roll legends Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper? A long, boring drive must be broken. It was decided. A visit to an obscure cornfield in Iowa, the site of the plane crash that claimed the lives of the above three legends (and pilot Roger Peterson) was locked in. But le...

The Badlands? Well it must have Bad Men? Why else have such a name? So keen to find about these bad men in the Badlands we set off on the start of our 550km easterly drive cross country on Interstate 90. On reaching the town of Wall we missed the exit to the Badlands National Park and had to drive an extra 6km to the next exit turn around. What a stroke of luck! By missing the Wall exit we stumbled upon a sign to the Minuteman Missile Historic Site. Greg, bei...

Take me back to the Black Hills, the Black Hills of Dakota. This line from a song from the movie 'Calamity Jane' has been ringing in our ears for the last few days. In 2009 we spent three months touring the USA on our Triumph Sprint ST motorcycle. One of the most memorable parts of that trip was a visit to the Black Hills Motorcycle Rally at Sturgis. We spent a week in the area around Rapid City. The roads on that visit were clogged with riders no matter where y...