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I love reading people’s travel budgets. As well as being useful for trip planning it’s an interesting window into people’s lives and travels (who can resist being a bit nosy!) I’d never published my own until now, but after readers asked about the cost of my trip around the southwest US road trip I thought … Leer más
Set in the shadow of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Santa Fe is one of the oldest cities in the USA, with a distinctive southwestern look thanks to a mix of Native American, Spanish and Mexican influences though its history. Santa Fe’s creative, artistic community, great food and drink and laid-back feel have seen it … Leer más
How to spend the perfect weekend in Sedona, Arizona – a guide to this beautiful town in the southwest USA featuring 48 hours of hikes, food and wine, sunsets and spirituality among the red rocks. Surrounded by a dramatic landscape of vivid red rock formations, Sedona in northern Arizona is one of the most beautiful … Leer más
Utah’s biggest national park, Canyonlands was also the park on my road trip route that I knew the least about. I’d seen plenty of photos of Arches, the hoodoos at Bryce Canyon and Zion‘s red rocks, but what about Canyonlands? It gets less than half the number of visitors of nearby Arches and a tenth of … Leer más
A land of delicately carved rock spires in sunset shades, Bryce Canyon was an out-of-this-world start to my southwest US national park hopping. The park is made up of a series of amphitheatres along the edge of a plateau, filled with thousands of rock formations called hoodoos They’re formed when the limestone is eroded by … Leer más
A guide to the US National Parks Service’s America the Beautiful annual US National Parks Pass – what is the pass, how much does it cost, and will it save you money on visiting parks in the USA? The US National Parks are one of the country’s biggest attractions, with 63 different sites stretching from … Leer más
Even if you’ve never been to Utah, you’ll recognise its landscapes. They’ve appeared on screen hundreds of times in films and TV series, from Westerns to thrillers and comedies. They’ve featured as themselves and been passed off as places across the world, and even beyond in a couple of sci fi films. And at the … Leer más
In a region of the Southwest USA packed with spectacular National Parks, Mesa Verde in Colorado is the odd one out. It might have the panoramic views, dramatic cliffs and rocky landscapes of nearby Arches or Canyonlands. But rather than dating back millions of years, the rock formations that make Mesa Verde unique were man-made … Leer más
The American southwest is one of the classic road trip destinations. You’ve got National Parks, Wild West landscapes, Native American history and Route 66 roadside kitsch along the roads that criss-cross the states of Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico. And on our two-week road trip we tried to soak up as much of … Leer más