Yeeeeee Haaaaaa cowboy. So we made it all the way back north into Wyoming and into REAL America.Nothing but wild animals, cowboys and mountains.We started off with a couple of days hiking and camping in Grand Teton National Park with its granite peaks and massive lakes.Having not seen any bears when we were in Yosemite, surely this was going to be our moment?But you see there's a strange thing about seeing bears - you spend so much time scanning the area in the h...

Into Utah - the home of polygamist Latter Day Saints and weird and wonderful red rocks.Luckily we didn't stay long enough in the Mormon areas for Ant to get any ideas but we did stay long enough in the red rock areas to explore and see why so many films have been made there.It's like nowhere else I've ever seen before - just crazy red raw panoramas. We started with a day hike up the Virgin River through the narrow slot canyons of Zion National Park.It was a bit ...

On route to the capital of sin, we made a few obligatory stops - at the Hoover Dam (very Art Deco retro) and the 'Welcome to Las Vegas' sign (again very retro).We also made a stop at a huge truckers stop where the diner just looked too enticing to pass by.It really was a jukebox-going-silent moment when we walked in with all eyes on us as we sat down amongst the bearded men.When we asked for a couple of menus, the waitress made her way back to the other staff whi...

From Joshua Tree we ventured further into the desert and had our first panicky road trip moment of being stuck in the middle of nowhere when the 'soft shoulder' at the side of the road turned out to be very soft indeed.Sand in fact.And all because I wanted to take a Thelma and Louise-esque photo of the car driving down a road to nowhere.A joint rescue effort later and we were feeling peckish.Probably not the best decision to stop to make our lunch in Needles - re...

So we stocked up on gallons of water and supplies and started our journey into the desert.Now one of our favourite films is "Into The Wild" - the haunting true story of Christopher McCandless aka Alexander Supertramp chasing his dreams across the North American continent - and one of the areas he spent a lot of time in was the desert around Salton Sea close to the Mexican border.So it seemed right to head in that direction.We didn't see anyone for hours...