50 States


Crater Lake NP – OR – Day 1

GREETINGS FROM CRATER LAKE NP, Oregon (OR), USA Today we set-off for National Park number 5 on this trip – Crater Lake. On leaving our hotel, we first drove through a very attractive part of the town – relatively new by the looks of it – with manicured homes and extensive […]


Bend – OR

GREETINGS FROM BEND, Oregon (OR), USA Thankfully today we changed from Mountain Daylight Time back to Pacific Daylight Time as the extra hour now gave us 25 hours of activities to fit into 24 hours – and we needed it !   Our journey today started and finished on 4 […]


Boise – ID

GREETINGS FROM BOISE, Idaho (ID), USA Today was a driving day but we made the most of it taking the scenic route – in fact 4 scenic byways along the way. We left Ketchum just on 9am and started on the Sawtooth Scenic Byway. For the first half hour or […]


Ketchum – ID

GREETINGS FROM KETCHUM, Idaho (ID), USA We are now in the lower reaches of the Sawtooth mountains, at Ketchum, ID. This area and the nearby Sun Valley is a real resort area. On the hillside near our hotel is a chairlift up onto the mountain. Today’s drive was really fairly […]


Idaho Falls – ID

GREETINGS FROM IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (ID), USA And all the potatoes you can eat ! Well, not exactly. They say the quickest way from A to B is a straight line – but as you can see, sideways anyway, we go via Z ! The first part of our drive […]