Author: Colin

I was supposed to take the car back to Oklahoma City airport today, but I have amended my booking, so that I can leave it at Dallas Love airport instead. Once I’d checked the tyre warning light was just down to the cold weather again, I was off and Texas bound. Dallas is a couple…

It’s a bit nippy, the weather app shows -11 degrees centigrade. I know now why the pioneers who came out west had it tough, not only did they encounter Native Americans, but many of them froze to death in those first early winters. The car warned me about my tyre pressures when I started her…

‘Values are like fingerprints, nobody’s are the same, but you leave ‘em all over everything you do’ – Elvis Presley. A long road today as I am heading towards Oklahoma City, which is around 500 miles west of Memphis. To get there I will need to cross the whole of Arkansas, driving past Little Rock…

‘The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams’ After a nice breakfast at the hotel, complete with English tea, which was a welcome change from coffee in the morning :), it was back in the car for the drive to Memphis.  Not before getting good use out of…

So I have hired a car and as a nod towards the ever more battered budget for my trip, I plump for an economy car. A Ford Fiesta is mentioned in my booking or even a Kia of some sort. Perhaps they have found a Lada out back with my name on it. However upon…

‘Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before’ I woke up feeling refreshed and headed out into another beautiful sunny day, cold, but otherwise perfect in every way. The vents in the road really know how to let off steam. Eat your heart out New York! Here it looks like they are having a…

Yes I know there is a more famous song that goes Sweet Home Alabama, but the Robert Johnson track, more recently covered by the Blues Brothers, Sweet Home Chicago is more fitting as this my current stop. I had decided to not come to Chicago due to extended stays in New York etc, but the…

‘We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us’ Today is named for the film, starring two comedy legends, Richard Prior and Gene Wilder. I am, of course talking about the train, specifically the Amtrak, Capitol service from DC to St. Louis, with a stopover in Chicago. My train is not…

   ‘Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer’ If yesterday was all about monuments, then today was much more about people. It didn’t start that way, I headed for the White House visitor centre only to find that they were also taking advantage of Covid to skive off half the week…

I woke to a beautiful sunny day, crisp and cold outside, but the sky is a fabulous deep blue, perfect sightseeing weather. I started off by heading for the White House, just around the corner from me. You can’t get that close anymore, but I managed to get on the road in front of it…