First We Take Manhattan – Cape Cod to New York City

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Mexico to New York

Cape Cod is a thin sandy peninsular that makes the shape of an arm wrestler’s elbow as it protrudes into the Atlantic Ocean. Once there was enough cod in the sea that, so they say,
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Little America – Lake Champlain to Boston

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Mexico to New York

Autumn in New England is a unique experience. The forested hills stretching up to the Canadian border become awash with the most amazing displays of colour as the leaves turn from green to vivid yellows,
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World Leader Pretend – Great Smokies to Washington, DC

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Mexico to New York

Running parallel to the east coast of North America are the Appalachians, a chain of ancient mountains once the size of the Rockies. Today the mountains, after eons of weathering, form a spine of hills
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Green Grow The Rushes – New Orleans to Florida

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Mexico to New York

If the southern states are like a country separate from the rest of the US, then New Orleans is something different again. OK, the CBD is pretty non-descript (with the exception of the awesome Superdome,
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Staring Down The Barrel Of The Middle Distance – The Rockies to South Dakota

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Mexico to New York

The great barrier to the expansion of settlement of the American continent was the ominous Rocky Mountains. We approached these monsters from the west and explored the alpine meadows where the lean Colorado River begins
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Near Wild Heaven – Yellowstone and Grand Teton

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Mexico to New York

Yellowstone NP was the first and is the largest National Park in the States.  The park sits on the collapsed caldera of a massive super volcano approximately 60km across. There are several distinct areas in
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The Great Beyond – The Pacific Northwest

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Mexico to New York

As you cross the state line from California into Oregon you get a sense that you’re travelling into somewhere different. There’s the odd glimpse of snow-capped mountains in the distance, the redwoods give way to
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I Remember California – Yosemite, Tahoe and Redwood NP

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Mexico to New York

If you had to design the perfect valley you might start with a river – pristine water gently gurgling over stones, wide and flowing enough to ride a raft down, but shallow enough to wade
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Bullet The Blue Sky – Joshua Tree to LA

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Mexico to New York

The wonders of the Grand Canyon were the last on our list of National Park scenery in the south-west, and we wanted to get across to the west coast asap. (On the way out we
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The Wake Up Bomb – Sante Fe, NM to the Grand Canyon, AZ

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Mexico to New York

From Durango in Colorado we travelled south back into New Mexico. The scenery changed from alpine to desert as we went along, though our next stop at Sante Fe is still at quite an altitude.
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