This is going to be a long one, but bear with me, there are going to be some bare breasted women along the way! --- With so little time left on our RTW trip we were glad to get to spend a few days in one of the world's most famous cities. Usually we opt for staying away from massive metropolitans or at least going through them quickly, but New York City turned out to be surprisingly easy going and navigable. And we weren't staying in the suburbs either, we ...

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...

If you've red this blog before you've probably noticed that I might get just a little sarcastic every once in a while. For that I blame Bill Bryson, a travel author whose books I've been reading on this trip. In his book The Missing Continent he writes about his travels in the United States, making snotty comments on things as he goes and getting disappointed at every turn. It's funny stuff, believe me. I'd like to quote things from the book but sadly I sold it f...

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...