Idaho is probably one of those states I would skip over if I wasn't on a mission to visit every state. Looking in my guide book there weren't many exciting things to do in the state so I picked the most interesting outdoorsy thing to do - visit the Craters of the Moon National Monument. I'd hoped to get an early start from West Yellowstone but I was very tired so that didn't happen. Then, on my way there, I had to stop at Wal-Mart in Idaho Falls to buy a new cam...

I have to quickly blog, even though there's nothing much to say about where I am. I just got the bus from Denver, Colorado to Billings, Montana... and I've never had such a good coach in my life! It's sort of a Greyhound service, but it's provided by a separate company. We had an almost-brand new Mercedes-Benz coach with Blaupunkt DVD system, and we watched movies for the whole 13 hour journey. It included, appropriately, Close Encounters of the Third Kind. I sa...

Denver, Colorado. When I think of Denver... I don't know what I imagine. Mountains, I guess. And Coors beer. So I didn't know why I was going there, besides needing to visit a place in Colorado. There is a hostel though so it was a cheap place to stay. I had two days in town. The first day I arrived by overnight bus from Las Vegas at 10am so I had most of the day to do stuff. I stuck with my old favourite of getting a tour of the Capitol building. It was outstan...

I don't know what to say about Las Vegas. It surprised me to realise that this was my fourth time here. The first time I was not quite four years old so that doesn't really count. But after that I've been here in 2000, 2004 and now 2008 - every four years. I expect to be back here in 2012 then, to escape the London Olympics. The other thing I need to say is that Nevada is my 40th state so far, so only 10 more to go! The hostel was okay. They promised free limo p...

Again my TomTom GPS is being pessimistic with me. When I left my hotel in Cedar City and programmed it to take me back to Flagstaff, Arizona it told me it would take 7h45m, which shocked me because Google Maps had told me it was more like five hours, and I'd been counting on that. Since my GPS had been generous with its estimates before I decided to believe Google and set out to prove it worthy of my faith. It left my hotel at 10:05am and had been expecting my r...