No true American road trip would be complete without a detour to the famous Route 66. And I truly mean a detour since the historic link between Chicago and the southern west coast doesn't actually exist anymore. Some remaining bits and pieces can still be driven though, weather, good fortune and your vehicle permitting. We wanted to take our 19 feet long RV called Harvey there just to be able to say that we've done it. Isn't that how these things usually go? S...

It's curious how many kilometers one is willing to travel to see water doing things. We flew to Iguazu Falls to see it falling off a cliff and drove to Yellowstone to see it burst out of the ground. A few days later we found ourselves driving to see it dig a hole in the ground. That might be just a little sarcastic, but it's true, Grand Canyon is just a hole in the ground. It just happens to be a very big hole. It is a mile deep, ten miles wide and to see it f...