Travels in a Tin Can

for $10 each); Free coffee in Yosemite KOA - donations essential; Free night at a campsite. This last one was actually a godsend ...

However, the most memorable VAT moment on a campsite was our previously mentioned attempt to have a fire. Now this counts as a g ...

We became quite practised and developed a routine for completing this task. This included a division of jobs according to the la ...

17 - Ragin' Cajuns After six days spent mostly on the road and travelling nearly 2,000 miles we were ready for a bit of a break, ...

serious, yet mercifully accent-light local (mercifully because we really struggled to understand some of the people we met in th ...

'you will now have reached the main road' - and we had, although admittedly we reached the main road on numerous other occasions ...

heritage ‘elephants’ graveyard’ if you like. In the case of this American version there are a number of shops and houses of diff ...

The next demonstrator that we encountered was an African American woman weaving baskets. She was incredibly feisty, which we ass ...

heard the name, leading to some confusion. In fact live oaks are an evergreen member of the oak family, so they appear to be ‘li ...

Bellamy and Attenbrough occupied for weeks. The main reason we were on the road all day was because we elected to avoid main roa ...

we got there and the place was nearly closed. It was not proving to be a particularly productive day. The next thing on the Lazy ...

with no wrong turns. What is most impressive is that the meal was really nice as well. So rain clouds do have silver linings. Th ...

certainly not Hershey’s - so might have been better off not trying the Tootsie Roll and just imagining they were really nice. Ou ...

rows of live oaks lead from the Mississippi River to the house and then restart on the other side of the property. It all looks ...

We were quite relieved by this as several of the group had been winding us up with inane comments. One guy kept hitting the wood ...

18 – Are you being served? If you spend 90 days anywhere you are going to eat a lot of meals, and one might think that with trav ...

recommended restaurants for many of the places we visited. We trusted it with an almost religious faith, and nine times out of t ...

can eat’ buffet. This was a refreshing surprise given that staff working in these cheap, stuff-your-face type establishments oft ...

safety) was our most efficient waiter, than there were others who were more entertaining and friendly. Three spring instantly to ...

encouraged him to visit the UK so he would have an accent to everyone. The third, and most eccentric waitress that we encountere ...