Here is the video of our top five states: 5) South Carolina South Carolina is beautiful, especially the coastal areas. It has the beautiful, successful city of Charleston. We learned that the city are actively courting tech companies, which makes it…
Journey Surprises Part 2
Here’s the video: The US is a very religiously diverse country, so maybe we should have been expecting cowboys to have their own church, but this was still a big surprise to us both: European style basilicas in the middle of…
Journey Surprises Part 1
Here’s the video: The sculpture park in South Dakota was still one of the oddest and definitely most surprising experiences. It ties in with the more general unexpectedness of all the roadside things people have built in this country. Even…
Regional Roundup 4: The Southwest
The Southwest was amazing. It includes New Mexico, Arizona, Southern Nevada and Southern Utah. I think this was our favorite region. It has gorgeous weather in that it is hot or warm with the most days of sun per year out of…
Day 111-113: Phoenix, Arizona – Supermoon Eclipse
Since we have really liked Arizona and it is basically head to head with Florida in the current runnings of where we want to live, we stayed yet another day. We caught up on editing and did still more swimming, but also…
Day 110: Phoenix, Arizona – Chicano Art and a Free Haircut
We checked out the recommendation of the lovely woman we met the night before. We saw a display of chicano art. Chicano is a fairly political word that was new to Chris, but familiar to me as someone who did…
Day 108-109: Phoenix, Arizona – The Sonoran Desert and the City
With more energy after a few low key days in the Econo Lodge, we went out to have a proper look at the Sonoran Desert. A mile or so outside of Mesa, the giant saguaro cactuses started appearing. It was like a…
Day 106-107: Phoenix, Arizona – A Show Home in Chandler
We took a day off due to having the cheapest hotel of the tour that is any good (and the whole driving 360 miles on the day before. It is actually cheaper for us to live at this Econo Lodge in…
Day 105: New Mexico and Arizona
We woke up obscenely early as we weren’t really on Mountain Time yet. We set off on what turned out to be our longest drive of the trip at 361 miles in one day, nearly entirely on roads in the…