D-Day 80th Anniversary celebrations, more England and Wales and more anniversaries
Read moreIn terms of vast dramatic and varied scenery, from what we have seen of the USA I would have to say that the Southwest must be pretty close to the top of the list ! We started out the day in the brown expanses of countryside surrounding Tucson and heading […]
We didn’t drive very far today but it was still a very full day. First stop was the Pima Air & Space Museum. This place is also known as the “Boneyard” as it is used to store old US forces planes, helicopters and plane parts. It is over 5,000 acres […]
What a long and eventful day we have had today – brushes with the law, a gunfight …… but back to the start. It was a short drive south to our first stop at White Sands National Monument. It is an area of gypsum that has been caught in a […]
More variations to the driving plan today after we got further yesterday than planned. First we back-tracked a little to visit Carlsbad Caverns National Park, about 20 miles from Carlsbad. After driving the flat countryside we headed off the main road into a rare hilly region and the road twisted […]
We have actually made it a bit further than planned today – moving from Texas into New Mexico we gained an hour again so we decided to use it and go on to Carlsbad, New Mexico. It is about 90 miles north west of Pecos – our original intended stop […]
