We arrived in Asheville, North Carolina late in the day. We have previously been to Asheville so we did not plan on exploring and we had one common thought in mind - let's get back to Durham. Asheville is a city with about 85,000 people and is on the western side of the state of North Carolina and a stepping off point for a lot of people driving the Blue Ridge Parkway (which we did last year) in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Asheville itself is quite a...

We had reached the state of Oklahoma and spent a full day in Oklahoma City. Oklahoma City is basically in the centre of the state. We drove into the city and we were surprised that the freeways were not ultra busy. The city has a population of over 600,000 but as land is reasonably cheap, and flat, the city has spread out over quite a wide area and the central business district seems somewhat empty. There was ************e on the street, and when we asked a young...

As we had driven to Moab Peter had become more and more concerned about a noise in the rear of the car and was apprehensive about heading off on the 2000+ mile journey back to North Carolina. With a Chevrolet dealer in Moab he decided it best to have the car checked and sure enough they confirmed his suspicion that the diff was the problem. Fortunately for us they could complete the work, and had the parts available, so a few hours (and yes a few dollars) we had ...

When we first started thinking of these travels to some of the mid west national parks we thought that included Arches National Park along with Yellowstone and Glacier. However, when people asked us where we were going and we mentioned Arches they always said what about Zion and then Bryce Canyon. So some research followed and now we intend to visit each of the five national parks in the State of Utah. Firstly we visited Zion National Park which is in the South W...

We left Yellowstone via the South Entrance on Monday morning and just a few miles down the road is the boundary of Grand Teton National Park. It was definitely our shortest travelling day by far - less than sixty miles! Grand Teton National Park is about as far different from Yellowstone as is possible. It is not a geothermal area nor does it have great canyons. Instead there are lakes and mountains - a continuation of the Rocky Mountains. There are twelve glacie...