After a restless night in the Chevvy parking lot, with flashbacks of being on fire we sauntered down to Maccyd's for breakfast - Donna was in no mood to cook. What sort of a country is this - they only served iced tea - not hot tea! We hung around in the Chevvy dealership using the internet awaiting news of the damage to our pick up. The engine was fine it started no problem at all - the issue was the automatic transmission. Something had broken loose inside, c...

Friday 5th October - we will probably forget the date at some point but we will never forget the day. It started as a normal day but ended with a near death experience. Day 418 since e left home on our tandem , day 252 in the Americas, day 371 of our travels excluding our time back in England after the tandem crash. The snow hadn't fallen on Estes park as forecast, we left in a blaze of sunshine heading for Utah. The road climbed over several high passes, we en...

Leaving Cheyenne the weather was dreadful - cold and vey low cloud. This didn't bode well for going much higher back up into the Rocky Mountains. Arriving in Estes Park just on the edge of the Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado we were shocked on 3 counts. Firstly how big it was, we expected a visitor centre, gift shop and some RV campgrounds but were confronted with a full on town - supermarkets, cinemas, masses of shops, hordes of tourists, so many traf...

There are plenty of spectacular landscapes in North America but the bits between can be tedious. Not only was the scenery dull but it seemed to be a very poor area. Maybe it's coincidence but the less affluent areas always seem to be Indian reservation - poor housing, battered cars. We crossed into Nebraska and things looked a touch better. Suddenly I spotted something I had heard of but forgot to check our route to ensure we saw it - Carhenge! What a stroke of...

How diverse can one day be, we set of from Custer in a blanket of snow in the morning, we made a quick stop at a movie set 'Dances with Wolves', we visited Wall Drug, a store that is now much more than a pharmacy and then we reached our destination for the day - 'The Badlands'. The Lakota people were the first to call this place "mako sica" or "land bad." Extreme temperatures, lack of water, and the exposed rugged terrain led to this name. In the early 1900's, ...