Tombstone Arizona is the reason you do a road trip in the United States. Tombstone has a colourful, if somewhat violent and lawless, history that has been exaggerated in ways only Hollywood can do. It's the quintessential wild west story of the early days of the taming of the American frontier. Hardened men chasing the dream, unbridled patriotism, rough justice, and a boatload of guns- it just doesn’t get any more American than this. The Town Too Tough ...

Now that Dave B has reached the lofty heights of sixty five years well-lived, we expect that he will start to shrink, begin wearing fedoras, drive with his turn signal on all the time, and start forgetting all of those distant childhood memories (and things that happened yesterday). There's not much we can do about the first three but we thought we might help with some replacement childhood memories. We tried to track down a bouncy castle for him but we had t...

He's quiet about it but we think that Dave B illegally smuggled himself out of Britain and into Canada in a steamer trunk full of Quality Street Chocolates. With this in-dispute alien background we thought that he’d be particularly interested in what has to be the most famous in-dispute crash landing spot of an illegal alien in the U.S.: Roswell, New Mexico. The tin foil hat types hold that an alien spacecraft was flying over the New Mexico desert obse...

Our time in Texas with the Killer B's is going to be brief but if you're in Texas you have to do the cowboy thing so our first stop was a horse ranch. The pace was decidedly methodical but these weren't trail horses so you could easily wander off on your own and channel your inner Clint Eastwood. We were also fortunate to be skirting the second-largest canyon in the United States, the Palo Duro Canyon. It is roughly 70 mi (110 km) long and reaches a w...

We were told that senior citizens tend to get up pretty early in the morning so we made sure that we started our first full day on the 65 Years Young Birthday Tour before the crack of dawn and we were in our vehicle at 5:00am. Where we going at this early hour? Well, despite our many years together, DH has not always picked up on my inherent sensitivity and this was a case in point. I had picked the very sedate sport of star gazing the night before but DH was ada...