Up and off to Mesa Verde for the tour we'd postponed the day before. This is a *really* fascinating place and I’d encourage anyone to do this. It’s an ancient Puebloan cliff palace and the tour takes you right through it. They lived there from around 600 – 1300 AD. The tour only costs $3 once you’re in the park and I have an annual pass to all the US National Parks. Very economical of me. Then it was on the road again back to Utah. With a...

Despite what you all think, the blog mostly fell behind because of poor wifi and more frequent location changes. Scout's honour. (Scout's cross their fingers when they say that, right?) So Thursday 24 October had me waking up in Moab at a rather upmarket motel. Almost hotel quality. Almost. The microscopic towels let them down. They were roughly the size of postage stamps. And I’m lean. I’m not sure how those towels would go around the average Americ...

And not in a good way. But I'm getting ahead of myself. When I first planned this trip I had it in my head that I'd leave each town early in the morning and race to the next destination. Did this once and realised the folly of the scheme. Doing that lands me at my next destination in the middle of the day and photos are pointless until at least 4pm. So I've eased up on myself and have no complaints about it. Sleep in, pack my suitcases at a lazy rate, stroll out...

I'm writing this one up from memory. Two days ago was a long time ago, at the moment. Let me see... I collected my new friend - let's call him The Yank - at 8:30 and immediately asked where I could buy something resembling coffee. We went to the coffee shop and I bought a latte. It was regretable but the morning improved after that. Capitol Reef is one of the lesser known National Parks in Utah. I had a somewhat vague idea of what I wanted to see and do there b...

Tick off another 'first' - I ate biscuits and gravy for breakfast. :-D Mr Cowboy took me to get a latte (at the five seconds away place), then we had a proper cowboy breakfast - he informed me they live on this - of biscuits and gravy. He was truly shocked that I'd never tried this before. We followed that up with a visit to meet his colt, which is actually a two year old gelding but they still call them colts until they're four or five. How's that for confusing?...