Rocky Mountain National Park [this website is being useless and won't let me upload photos so for now there's no photo albums but when they get back to me I'll update!!] We arrived at Rocky Mountain national park with plenty of time to spare are have a look around but first we needed to find a place to park Suzanne. We had been told by the camper van rental people that you can park for free anywhere in a national park so long as you are at least 200 metres off ...

Albuquerque, Great Sand Dunes National Park and Salida After another long drive along seemingly endless straight roads through the desert we began to see huge mountains covered in lush green trees and bushes. We had reached Albuquerque. The drive through the outskirts into the city was beautiful and green, which i wasn't expecting as i thought Albuquerque was a desert city! I must admit that my only knowledge of Albuquerque is from the American TV series Breakin...

Big Bend and Carlsbad Caverns It was quite a long drive to Big Bend national park which is on the border of Mexico. It wasn't that bad though as the scenery was stunning, we stopped quite a few times to take pictures of the vast expanses of fields and mountains. The roads were so quiet that we got a photo of us lying in the middle of the road, we didn't see any other cars for hours! We passed through some thunderstorms with really impressive lightning, the stor...

Austin, Texas We ended up leaving New Orleans a little late due to the previous nights drama which in turn led to us arriving late into Texas. We tried to book a campsite but they were all closed and we couldn't quite make it to Austin. To add to our tardiness when we stopped at Macdonalds to use the bathrooms we got back into the van and the ignition wouldnt turn. We called the campervan company and explained what was wrong, the only thing we could think was th...

New Orleans We arrived in New Orleans at mid afternoon and were instantly taken by the city. We drove through small streets lined with beautifull and colourfull houses with intricate metals railings and balconies. The shops along the streets were predominantly bespoke shops and restaurants or bars, as far as i can remember i didn't see a single subway or Macdonalds which was very refreshing! As we drove we wound down the windows and live Jazz music filled the c...