North America

The second state that we went through on our 1980 American road trip was Alabama but we didn't stop there, we drove through Alabama to Mississippi for an overnight stop & on to the fourth State we would go through, Louisiana on the I10.

On our drive across America, we travelled through Arizona. A beautiful state that at the time I probably didn't appreciate as much as I would now if I were to do this trip again.

We toured around the swamp in the Atchafalaya Basin on a small boat made for about 2 dozen people. We saw hundreds of alligators our tour guide threw food to, getting them to come closer for our photos.

I went to Atlanta, Georgia as part of my Southern States tour in 2012. As well as looking at many of the large homes in Atlanta, we also visited the CNN Centre and the Martin Luther King Memorial Visitor Centre.

The year my dad passed away, I took my mum out to Florida for five weeks. A day or so after his funeral, I took her out to my home in Orlando. The idea was for me to put my home up for sale and get my mum away from the thousands of telephone calls she would expect from well-meaning

We didn't have very long at Carlsbad Caverns, but I did manage to get to the bottom of the main cave & back up. 

The Crazy Horse Memorial is a mountain monument under construction on privately held land in the Black Hills in Custer County, South Dakota. It will depict the Oglala Lakota warrior, Crazy Horse, riding a horse & pointing into the distance.

I stayed in a hotel just outside the Custer State Park at Keystone, it seemed very familiar, and I am sure I once stayed there before on a road trip in the late 1980s with my friend Alistar Parry.

I went to look around Deadwood, South Dakota, after our tour coach stopped at our hotel in Lead. We were given 20 minutes to rest, and our coach driver offered to drop us off in Deadwood.

Denver, Colorado, was the starting point for my National Monuments & Parks tour in 2011. 

I liked the Arizona, Sonora Desert Museum and was disappointed we didn't have more time to spend there.

We were not scheduled to visit the Devils Tower National Monument. We were supposed to be going to the site of the battle of Custer's Last Stand but due to landslides, we couldn't get through to it. 

At the start of 2017, I stayed at my apartment in Davenport, Florida, USA. I had rented it out previously and had to clear it up after the people renting it had left and made a mess of it, making it difficult to sell. I decided to visit

Today, the NCL Spirit sailed the Endicott Arm, allowing us to view the Dawes Glacier.

On our road trip across America in 1980, we began our trip in Florida, at Orlando. We drove South to the Florida Keys, crossing the Everglades & turning back North to visit Disney World & Cape Canaveral. 

I am in the lucky position to say that I have flown the Grand Canyon on three occasions.

We stayed at Galveston Island for a few nights on our way through Texas, and I enjoyed my stay there.

I have always been fascinated by the vast Whales I have seen on TV nature programs and the Orca I have seen at SeaWorld in Florida. I had always wanted to see them in their natural habitat and have now

Today, I took an escorted tour of the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.

Today, I woke up in my hotel at Waikiki Beach in Honolulu. I was still a bit tired but felt better than last night.