I'm only writing one blog about Tokyo, as it seems all our days here have meshed into one and become kind of the same. In retrospect it was probably a mistake to spend so much time here, but cest la vie, it has given us some time to have a bit of a rest and we've managed to keep the sightseeing low key for the past few days. We've seen a few things, but mainly attempted to look at the shops. The first day we went out to the Harajuku district, which was bille...

It was quite a way to our next stop for the day but it was worth it. Mt. Rushmore, something that I had wanted to see for years. We drove through Rapid City which had life sized statues of presidents all over the town. We drove through the town of Keystone, noticing that everything was closed for winter. We had to pay for parking at Mr. Rushmore, which I think is how they get around not charging entrance fees at national parks. It was a short walk up to th...

Woke up this morning in the deserted town of Lusk in the middle of deserted Wyoming. We had breakfast at the hotel, which was really good. We left Lusk and drove to the Devil's Tower National Park via the town of Sundance, which I had originally planned on staying in. I'm not sure what I was thinking, but I imagined this town to be bigger, but Lusk was an experience….a very isolated experience. We could see the Devil's Tower from 10 miles away, just stick...

We left our motel in Glenwood Springs early this morning as the sun was just coming up. The failing light made the snow on the immense mountains look pink. There were small houses and pine trees dotted all over them and it was really magical to drive through this spectacular scenery. We drove along the Colorado River for about 100 miles today, it was frozen in parts and in other parts reflected the sky and the snowy mountains around us. Our drive this morni...

We left our motel in Monticello early this morning for our drive to Canyonlands National Park, we got about 5 miles down the road and it was completely blocked by snow, so being disappointed again we thought we would have to give it a miss. We got on the highway and about 30 miles in we found another entrance that was actually a quicker way. Another Sat Nav fail. We drove for about 32 miles down another long windy road, on the way we saw "Newspaper rock" whi...