We’re getting near the end of the journey and it’s time to have a little fun. Well, not that I’ve NOT been having fun already, but in Texas at the weekend we went to the ‘free’ 72oz steak restaurant in Amarillo, before my new companion for the last two weeks – Paul – helps me [...]

Back in December of 2007 I took a trip out to California from Charleston and went to Los Angeles and drove up the coast to San Francisco. At the time, I was very excited because it meant that I got to tick CA off of my ‘States I’ve visited’ list which I think at the [...]

I will of course do a massive round up of stats at the end, when all the gas money has been spent, and mileage clocked. Until then, here we go again … Whilst I’m sure you already know you can click on the progress map (which you can click on anytime over there in the [...]

Once more, it’s 365 days since I could last say “It’s my birthday”, which means I do this: Birthdays are often the time to take stock of ones lot. And I like to look back on my birthday on the pluses and minuses of the last twelve months – and compile a little life balance [...]

You know you’re in New Mexico when every town stars with the word ‘San’ or ‘Santa’. Well, every town that is except for the intriguingly named ‘Truth Or Consequences‘ which (yes, go back and click on its hyperlink!) is a real name for a town not far from the campground where I sit and type [...]

Robbie Coltrane is to blame for my Route 66 obsession Who? (Ask all the Americans) … this guy. Yes – the fat bloke from Cracker – as everyone remembers him from England, or of course now better known for his Harry Potter role. ‘Coltrane in a Cadillac‘ is what the TV series was called, and [...]

My first ever home computer, back in the the 1980′s when I was first becoming a geek was Texas Instruments TI-994a. The ‘badup-blip!’ noise that you got, along with a fleeting map of Texas that you got on the TV screen (yes kids, we had to plug our home computers into our TV’s back in [...]

Amongst all the regular sight-seeing and trips to National Parks, you’d be forgiven for thinking that I’ve not been stopping at all the ‘same name’ tube places, well … don’t panic, I have Some of them are just … not that interesting though! e.g. I’ve got a whole 20 minutes of video of me standing [...]

I can now finally reveal the real reasoning behind my indecision of if I should stay in the USA, or go home to the UK : It all comes down to my driving license. I will be forced to go back to England, when I have so many points on my driving license that that [...]

As the trip continues, and I get more tired, I confess that I’m finding it harder and harder to make the effort to produce video whilst on the road, and thus are a few days behind. So this is from last week, when Nik was still with me. The day started in Montana, but we [...]

My favourite incidents from the past few days. In Seattle at the weekend, I’m staying with my friend Chris. Now when I say ‘friend‘, I mean a man that I have conversed with over the internet for about 18 months and we’ve never actually met in person before, so he and his wife considered that [...]

Wending my way through the mountains of West Virginia was lovely. The corn fields of Iowa strangely enchanting, Yellowstone Park predictably stunning, and the Beartooth pass of Montana indeed was most scenic. But possibly my most favourite scenic drive so far came quite unexpectedly yesterday as I took a “day out” to go visit a [...]