So after 8,500 miles of driving, one citation, one chipped windscreen, twelve National Parks across ten states (twelve including stop overs) we're leaving the US. Favourite memories are of the wildlife we saw in Yellowstone NP and Custer State Park, most notably the bison which are amazing creatures. The Black Hills were amazing too, as they include some natural Native American monuments and history, as well as Mount Rushmore and some Wild West towns. Th...

Wow LA is crazy. I think there are about 7 lanes of traffic and a cloud of smog that kinda hangs over the city. We spent 4 days in LA and started by visiting the Venice Beach area. Here we saw the infamous muscle beach, those guys are huge. Rich wanted to challenge them to a lift off but I had to persuade him that he wasn't quite packing as much muscle under his vest as the other guys. His was more of a 24 pack than a six pack! The beach was white sand ...

Well after a sweaty night in Beaver, we drove on to Bryce Canyon National Park. Before I forget, happy birthday yesterday dad! Bryce Canyon National Park has some of the best scenery we've seen on the trip so far. The pictures probably don't do it justice, but it's like a forest of these rock formations call hoodoos. For all the budding geologists out there (of which we're not two), a large part of middle America was covered by an ocean millions of years ...

What's that, Beaver? Yes, today we stayed in a town called Beaver. The town slogan was "Beaver, Mountains of fun". No comment, though I thought being the Mormon State people would be a bit more prim and proper. Before we ascended Beaver, we drove about 300 miles to Arches National Park and back. Arches is basically a National Park with hundreds of arches made from stone, which were created through erosion and natural events, etc. I think after the Natio...

"Vegas baby!" OK, my boss Doug was right, we would end up in Vegas for at least a night, but it was a handy stopping off point between Death Valley and the Grand Canyon. After a few beers in New York, New York and the Aladdin ($2 beers, we are travelling after all!), plus an In n' Out double double burger (Max, we were thinking of you), we headed off to Grand Canyon NP the next day. Last time we went to the US we did a helicopter tour over the canyon...