After having driven Harvey the RV for almost 5000 miles we found ourselves back in Salem Oregon a few days too early. We were returning the car to Portland in a couple of days and had planned to return to our base in Salem the night before that, but having exhausted the few places of interest in southern Oregon we figured we might as well give the northern part another go. We slept well on the front yard of my exchange year host family and woke up with just one t...

We've enjoyed visiting quite a few national parks on our U.S. road trip, partly because we bought the annual pass for $80, but mostly because we always seem to enjoy natural sights better than man made ones. I'll probably post a top-10 kind of thing about the stuff we've seen on the trip after we get back home, and those will most likely include places like the Chitwan National Park in Nepal, the Iguazu Falls in Argentina and Yellowstone in the U.S. We like to he...

One of the first things we decided to do when we planned our RTW trip was to rent a motorhome in the USA and drive it around for a month. At first we thought we'd do a coast to coast trip, but we quickly realized that this would take too long and/or mean we would miss a lot of the things we had listed as the "must sees". So instead we decided to return the car to Portland Oregon where we were starting our US tour. The second important question was where to ren...

I spent ten months in USA as an exchange student in 2006-2007 and had a great time. This was mostly due to the amazing host family I had and thus as we were planning our RTW trip it was quite obvious that we'd have to stop by to see them. It just so happened that our schedule took us there in the beginning of July when the country was celebrating its independence day. My old host family invited us to join the festivities by taking us to the same campground I visi...

Our travel agent at Kilroy had booked us a weird set of flights for our trip to the United States, where we would start by visiting my old host family in Oregon (I was an exchange student in high school in 2006-2007). To get there from Lima we would start by flying to San Jose in Costa Rica and continue to Los Angeles with a technical stop at Guatemala. In LA we would have to get our things from the belt and check them in again for the final flight to Portland Or...