Oregon

Painted Hills


oregonPainted Hills Planet Mars? Nah, it’s always the USofA. The Painted Hills are one of the Seven Wonders of Oregon. t’s easy to understand the reason of that name: the million...

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Texas

The Hills Have Eyes


TexasThe Hills Have Eyes Comfort, Texas is a small town of nearly 2000 inhabitants in the Hill Country. It is located exactly at the crossroads of some of the most scenic roads of the state leading...

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New Mexico

White Sands


New MexicoWhite Sands National Monument In our modest opinion this is one of the most strange and fascinating parks all over the United States. A white sand desert with the New Mexico mountain...

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Iowa

Walnut


Walnut Before reaching Walnut, we have to cross the whole Iowa which means corn fields, corn fields and more corn fields. Our final destination is Omaha, Nebraska, but surfing the net we read that...

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Wyoming

Wake Up and Smell the Hustle


People / Photography / PlacesWake Up and Smell the HustleWhat’s more American than attending a rodeo during a trip to the United States? Our first rodeo was in Cody, Wyoming, the state that...

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Mississippi

Natchez


MississippiNatchezNatchez is the oldest settlement along the Mississippi River and  has more ante-bellum homes than anywhere else in the United States. Many of these historic homes are open for visits. People...

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Iowa

Field of Dreams


IowaField of Dreams One night Ray Kinsella, a farmer who moved to Iowa with his family, while walking through the cornfield hears a voice saying: “If you build it, he’ll come back”. He...

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Colorado

Red Rocks Amphitheatre


ColoradoRed Rocks Amphitheatre Each time we are traveling through Colorado we always try to find a way to stop at the Red Rocks Park and Amphitheatre for a concert, no matter who’s playing. The...

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Colorado

Garden of the Gods


ColoradoGarden of the GodsLiving in a big city and having such a beautiful area just a few minutes away from downtown, means to be a lucky person. Garden of the Gods is a beautiful public park full...

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Wyoming

Wyoming Territorial Prison


Laramie (Wy)Wyoming Territorial Prison The Outlaw Trail ended here. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Wyoming Territorial Prison is an imposing stone structure built in 1872 (restored...

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Washington

Port Townsend


WashingtonPort Townsend Port Townsend, Washington was founded in the 19th century  expecting a shipping boom. Unfortunately, when the railroads connected to Seattle, Port Townsend remained isolated, ...

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Oregon

Goonies never say die


OregonGoonies never say die Astoria (Oregon) is a quaint town on the Columbia River where the river flows into the Pacific Ocean. The town is quite small, but there is plenty to see and do: breweries...

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Mississippi

Shack Up Inn


MississippiShack Up Inn SHACK UP INN 1 Commissary Circle, Clarksdale, Mississippi shackupinn.com Three Reasons to stay here To feel surrounded by the Blues To live the experience to stay in a real...

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Nevada

Valley of Fire


NevadaValley of Fire A red like fire valley about an hour and a half drive from Las Vegas, a large expanse of red sandstone that looks like going on fire under the blazing sun of Nevada. Despite...

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Texas

Terlingua


TexasTerlingua We are deep inside the Texan part of  Chihuahuan Desert, inside the Brewster County, the biggest and less populated area of Texas. A deserted and inhospitable land on the Mexican...

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Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania

No Selfies


Indiana, Ohio, PennsylvaniaNo Selfies. No phone, no computer, no TV, no belts, no ties, no gloves and in many cases no electricity, no cars and most of all no selfie because striking a pose for a photo...

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Colorado

Gold Rush


Gold Rush We reach Victor (Colorado) at 10000 ft, after only 1 hour of scenic drive from Colorado Springs. Victor is one of Colorado’s few surviving historical gold mining boom towns from...

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Utah

Capitol Reef National Park


UtahCapitol Reef National Park Capitol Reef National Park, in Central Utah, is one of the less visited parks in the Utah tourist circuit. While this translated into an advantage for us, not visiting...

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Virginia

Friday Nite Jamboree


VirginiaFriday Nite Jamboree It’s Friday night in SouthWest Virginia when we arrive in Floyd after driving most of the 300 miles of “The Crooked Road” to one of the points where the Blue...

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Wyoming

Dayton Days


WyomingDayton Days The small town of Dayton (Wyoming) frames the scenic U.S. Highway 14 as it enters the foothills of the Bighorn Mountains. It’s on our way to Yellowstone and since we find...

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Mississippi

Where the Blues was born


MississippiWhere the Blues was born Clarksdale in the “Blues metaphysics” is the crossroad, the legend, the one of the pact with the Devil. Here, until yesterday, a black man was worth...

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New Mexico

Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks


New MexicoKasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks If you are in Santa Fe, New Mexico and you like hikes, the one leading to Kasha Katuwe, which in Cochiti language means “White Cliffs”, is definitely not to be missed. Only...

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Nevada

The Loneliest Road in America


Places / Travel / TripThe Loneliest Road in AmericaIn July 1986, Life Magazine described the Nevada’s Hwy 50 from Ely to Fernley as the “Loneliest Road in America”. “It’s...

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Nebraska

Carhenge®


PlacesCarhenge®Only in USA! While we are driving on a secondary road across the Nebraskan High Plains we reach Alliance. Alliance is an all american working class town built at the edge of the railroad...

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Illinois

The Best Main Street of the Midwest


Places / Food / StayThe Best Main Street of the MidwestDuring these years of U.S. cross country traveling, one of the things we understood is that every town, whether it’s true or not, claims of being...

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Louisiana

In the Louisiana Bayou


Nature / PlacesIn the Louisiana Bayou “We’re in a muddy swamp here, man. The alligators are swimming around us, and we don’t even know whether they’re there. You know why? ‘Cause we don’t...

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Montana

Glacier National Park


Glacier National ParkAnother movie reference and again back to the 80s to introduce the Glacier National Park. If you remember Shining’s opening credits, you see a beautiful lake surrounded...

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Kansas

Monument Rocks


Monument Rocks While driving across Kansas, a lot of people we met on the road kept on asking the same question: “What the f* are you doing here?” Indeed, after hundreds of miles of cows...

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Montana

Music on Main


Music on Main Music on Main is a Bozeman tradition that brings out the community to listen to good music and see familiar faces in this cozy Montana town. Every Thursday from late June to mid August,...

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Arizona

The Painted Desert Project


The Painted Desert Project The very last spot where we would have thought to see street artworks is on Arizona US 89, North of Flagstaff. Yet here, beyond the Navajo Nation’s wonderful and infinite...

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Places

MLK


MLK The Lorraine Motel is located at 450 Mulberry Street in the heart of Memphis, and has been there since the mid-1920s. Formerly known as Windsor Hotel and later Marquette, it was a “white people...

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California

Joshua Tree National Park


Joshua Tree National Park Surreal landscapes, extreme heat (oh yes we went during the summer with triple digits temperatures) and endless yucca trees. It seems to be in one of those sci-fi movie...

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Oklahoma

Where the Buffalo roamed


Where the Buffalo roamed If you have a stone in your pocket and by mistake you let it fall into Oklahoma, that rock will be likely to become the highest mountain in this state. We say it would,...

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