Commonly a road trip in the United States brings to mind two things: Route 66 and the Pacific Coast Highway. Both are scenic and historic and replaced nowadays by larger roads but still parts of the olden days remain. We had already done bits and pieces of Route 66 and so it was pretty obvious that we would have to go do the other way as well, we were even in the neighborhood. Starting from Los Angeles we took highway 101 north and spent a night at the parking...

I've said it before, but I'll try to keep this short. Usually it doesn't work out but what the hell… After driving the famous old Route 66 for a little while we headed back on the interstate highways to speed things up a little. We were heading towards Los Angeles but weren't planning on spending a night there so getting there in time was pretty important to us. Usually driving into a big city is both time consuming and nerve wrecking. Since everything is bi...

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...

Just as a heads up, this is not going to be a story of Hangover proportions, nor did anything happen in Vegas that we hope stayed there. We came, spent one night, saw enough and left. End of story. I'll elaborate it a bit below, but that's pretty much all there is to it. We're just not party people… Anyway, we just couldn't do a road trip in western United States without visiting Las Vegas. I guess it's mandatory in some elementary way to go see the lights o...

I've stated multiple times in different posts that national parks in the United States are made to be toured in vehicles and that no matter how crowded the place seems to be at first glance, one can find solitude simply by walking a few dozen meters off the main paths. Recently we discovered a place that seemed to defy this basic rule, a thing of which we were most unhappy about. I get what the rangers in Zion National Park are trying to achieve, and they are doi...