Colorado Rocky Mountain High
Now we’re seeing what it was John Denver was singing about (to listen while reading the blog click his name and it will open in a new tab – I…
Bye New Mex, Hello Colorado
I’ve been preoccupied with prep for our fast approaching trip back to Australia so I apologise for the lateness of this post. With this submission I’ll only be one behind…
Santa Fe Part Duex.
Santa Fe is one of the few places we’ve ever had to write two posts to cover it all. It is a great city with lots to see and do…
Santa Fe Trails
At the end of the last post we were in Abq (Albaquerque) having a ball and being surprised by what New Mexico has to offer. Well we’ve moved on to…
Aliens and Indians.
In an effort to catch up on the blog (I’m 3 cities behind) I will review in this one post our journey through two more stops in New Mexico which…
Alama-who?
So after 2 months we finally managed to get out of Texas but we still left a lot unseen. We entered New Mexico with no idea of what was here…
El Paso, West Texas
Well, a week in El Paso passed so quickly but first things first. We left Fort Davis and had an overnight stop at Van Horn. Van Horn looks as though…
Fort Davis Fort
Sadly, we left the Big Bend and headed away from the border (for now) for the former US Army town of Fort Davis. It was not an arduous journey with…
Ridiculously Sublime
This post won’t have as many words as normal because frankly we have run out of adjectives to describe this ridiculously, sublimely, gorgeous area known as the Big Bend. This…
On the Rio Grande
Hello again from west Texas, USA. This blog I will report on 3 stops and nearly catch up to where we are, Big Bend National Park. But it will depend…
Snakes alive!
So our Corpus Christi stay ended and we set off again for our next port of call, Brownsville Texas, on the southern most border of the USA and Mexico. Back…
A short beach break
Corpus Christi was to be our next port of call but from Galveston it was a long jump so we stayed the night at a little place called Port Lavaca.…
No problem in Houston
“Uh, Houston, we’ve had a problem”. This now famous phrase was uttered by Apollo 13 astronaut John (“Jack”) Swigert on the seventh manned mission in the Apollo space program and…
Galveston oh Galveston
Sadly we left San Antonio and headed further south looking for more warmth. This time we were headed to Houston/Galveston with an overnight stop in Columbus, TX. We see some…
Remember the Alamo
“Remember the Alamo”. That was the war cry that started with the brave men of Sam Houston’s Forces that fought the Mexicans at San Jacinto for independence from Mexico. It…