After a reasonable, if smoky breakfast in Nevada, we briefly crossed back into Arizona. It was quite an impressive little road cut right through the mountains. We entered Utah quite soon after that: We changed time zones again; we went…
Day 113-114: Las Vegas and Mesquite, Nevada
After finally leaving Arizona, we entered Nevada. We almost immediately went back into Arizona due to having a look at Hoover Dam, which is between the two states: We headed straight to Las Vegas as we had a room on…
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…
Day 104: Albuquerque, New Mexico
After an acceptable night in a hotel with a great bed, a freezing, shallow pool and a horrible breakfast, we had a look at Albuquerque. Do check out the video: We started out heading north to Rio Rancho, which is a…
Day 103: Roswell, New Mexico
We spent the morning doing the thing most people go to Roswell, New Mexico for, the International UFO Museum: It was about as cheesy and odd as one would expect. They had some attempts at being serious, and the first…
Day 102: The Texas Panhandle
We woke up extremely early for our standards, in that we managed to see our first sunrise of the trip in Shamrock: After a quick breakfast as the hotel didn’t even make coffee (despite still having all the stuff out on display…