Everywhere you go in Illinois you’re reminded on streets signs and number plates that this is the home state of Abraham Lincoln, and Springfield was Lincoln’s home town prior to becoming President so today was all about Honest Abe. The drive from St Louis to Springfield is only quite short…
When we stepped outside the hotel this morning it was already very hot, so it’s lucky we only had a short walk down to the Jefferson Memorial Park and the Gateway Arch. I’m afraid that we really didn’t get to see the memorial at its best. When I’d looked at…
We left Mark Twain behind this morning and set forth southwards along the Mississippi River Road along Twain’s beloved river. The “Great River Road” is a byway that runs the entire length of the river from Minneapolis in the north to New Orleans in the south but we only touched…
The sky was gray again this morning as we left Manhattan and headed east. We followed the interstate and only left it just before Kansas City when we stopped on the bank of the Missouri River at Kaw Point where the Kansas River flows into the Missouri. There is a…
For the last couple of days Neil has been able to live out his Kansas expectations ( Dodge City/Gunsmoke/Wyatt Earp etc) but today it was my turn! When we left Dodge this morning the cloud hung very low and made for an eerie drive for the first hour or so…
Our plan for today was to take a scenic drive ( just for a change! 🙂 ) to the northwest of Dodge City to see the Monument Rocks National Landmark. It was just under 2 hours drive each way and would leave us time later in the day to visit…
The skies were still grey this morning in Oklahoma City, but at least the rain had stopped. We left the hotel and drove a few blocks north to the Oklahoma City National Memorial. As I mentioned in yesterday’s post this memorial was built on the location of the Federal building…
You know you’re in Texas when there’s two men in the breakfast room wearing ten gallon hats and Spurs! The two gents left the room and headed out to their cars which led Neil to ponder how they could drive with spurs digging into the accelerator and brake? The rain…
Most of us probably have an image of the West that includes dry and dusty plains…and the sun beating down on the head of John Wayne etc etc. Well, that’s what I expected the West to be like… until today. We left Santa Fe under low cloud and grey skies…
Breakfast was lovely this morning. Our current hotel is a bit more upmarket than the last few and you really notice the difference in the breakfast. Even the bacon was good ( and that’s not something I’ve often said about American bacon!) Now that Neil has caught my cold we…
First stop for today was the Sandia Peak Tramway, a cable car the takes passengers from the outskirts of Albuquerque suburbs up to the heights of Sandia Peak, over 10,000 feet above sea level. We were fortunate to arrive just in time to leap on the cabin as the doors…
Last night we had a pleasant dinner at the hotel restaurant but as usual the servings were enormous! I’d love to have been able to finish my Southwestern Chicken ( spicy but delicious!) but there was just no way I could fit all that food in my stomach. Afterwards we…
