OMG!!!! It had to be the straightest and longest road we have ever driven on. We always thought the road across the Hays Plain in New South Wales was straight and often marvelled that you could see the curvature of the earth, but it has nothing on what we did today. The boredom of the … More Rapid City, South Dakota to Rochester, Minesota – 20th November

OK, so we awoke to snow on the ground in Gillette and very icy road conditions. Luckily, we do not have a great distance to drive today but we are on some smaller roads as we are heading to some rather well-known tourist/historic sites today. First order of the day is to show the route … More Gillette, Wyoming to Rapid City, South Dakota – 19th November

So, a good map overview as to how far we have travelled in the last three days. A distance of 1235k covered to date. Meaning, we are one sixth of the way there!!!! So far the weather is still hanging in there with clear roads and very minimal traffic. The Best Western that we stayed … More Billings, Montana to Gillette, Wyoming – 18th November

So, another day on the road. Only day 2 of what will eventually be 12 days of driving. Today was just over 300k on what was yet again, very straight roads. We are hardly giving the car navigation system a workout! A friend asked us to post some pictures of the drive but as you … More Shelby, Montana to Billings, Montana – 17th November

So, we have been sitting at home twiddling our thumbs for the last couple of days in anticipation of our trip down to Arizona for winter. Once again, we are going to Venture Out in Phoenix which we have renamed Disneyland for Retirees, until the end of March 2025. We are renting a park model … More Starting our Epic Road Trip from Calgary to Phoenix – 16th November 2024

Awoken at the ungodly hour of 5.00am by the alarm to catch our 5.30am taxi to the airport. It also started with a bit of an ominous incident where we managed to jam the lovely antique lift in our hotel. Luckily there was still the more modern service elevator in working order. Things then went … More Homeward Bound – 30th April 2024

So, our last day in Madrid today and our last day of holiday as tomorrow morning at an absolutely ludicrous hour we will fly from Madrid to Frankfurt and then on home to Calgary. It has truly been a very good trip especially as the both of us came away with great trepidation, mostly due … More Madrid – 29th April 2024

We learnt when we arrived at our hotel in Madrid yesterday that the Madrid marathon would be on today and that many streets would be closed off. We didn’t really think about it that much, but it wasn’t until we left our hotel this morning, that maybe we should have paid a bit more notice. … More Madrid – 28th April 2024

It always pays to pace yourself in such a way that you have time should things go belly up and this morning it did go in that direction, slightly. We had a leisurely breakfast followed by final packing of the bags and then downstairs to order a taxi/Uber for our trip to the train station. … More Barcelona to Madrid – 27th April 2024

When we drove into the city of Barcelona two days ago a couple of things stood out very clearly to us. Firstly, we felt like we were in Paris with the classical buildings and wide boulevards. Secondly, there were a lot of Plane Trees providing shade coverage on the pedestrian boulevards of which there were … More Barcelona – 26th April 2024