The trick to look like a real new yorker is to always be in motion, always look straight ahead and to always hold on to something, a steering wheel, a mobile phone, a cup of coffee...Only the homeless, the aimless and the tourists slowly walk up and down, looking up and around as they take in this passionnate, breathless city. However, not matter how long you walk here, not matter how breathless you get, there is always a little iron green foldable chair to rest ...

From Vegas we drove back to one of our favorite places, the grand Canyon Motel in Williams on Route 66. This time, we even got a room in a train carriage (a Caboose) to Maxim and Callum delight until we discovered that it was...wait for it...a certified haunted site, specifically in the train carriages....But we saw about as many ghosts as we saw bears...(beside the one in Castro, but it does not count) We were in for a treat this Saturday, a real, unmissable am...

Going from Williams to Vegas was like going from a heathly homemade salad to an all you can eat buffet. We saw shimmering trucks emerge from watery mirages in the desert heat, in a landscape devoid of any tenderness.  The Hoover dam was on the way, a quick blistering stop to admire this immense monument to the human ingeniosity. It was conceived as a way to create employment during the Great Depression. Its huge source of hydroelectric power had another side ef...

Williams on Route 66 came as a nice surprise, we expected another hot little desert town like Needles along Route 66, the legendary road winding its old fashioned way across America. But it is high land here and cool under the pines trees. Instead of another motel, we are staying in a cottage, with a playground, a few train carriages and a BBQ from which we saw a lunear eclipse last evening. It is a place that is filling us with happiness, the one you get when ev...

It is hot out there, in the middle of the desert but in our mind, we are still somewhere green and high up between Yosemite and the Sequoia National Park. We have added more gems to our memory box: majestic valleys, huge waterfalls, blue birds flying under the canopy of giant Sequoias, bears footprints and the smell of warm pines. In Yosemite, we camped in front of a waterfall and surrounded by a silver cliff for two days. Maxim and Callum were not impressed by ...