USA

4,500 mile road-trip in a 24' long RV round the national parks of Utah, Montana, Wyoming, New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona... I am a very keen traveler and have been to many obscure places around the world, but I have never been too enthralled by American "culture", after all, you can get that anywhere or just turn on the telly, so I wasn't really planning to go there on holiday at the moment. I have been to the US of A more than ten times, mostly on business, because I worked for a Silicon Valley company for 15 years, and have done a couple of driving holidays there too. The weak dollar did however make a trip to America quite tempting and I do love the ...

'Americans, you either love em or you hate em?' well, that depends on which americans, you talk about. If you mean the native americans, the only true americans, the chances of actually meeting one are pretty remote so you will never find out. The only places you might find some are at casinoes and selling cut price cigarettes on the scanty reserves of land left to them by the europeans. Do you mean the black americans, well, if you are white, dont expect much contact with them, in most the the cities, the black keep very much to themselves, the is a LOT of segregation. It took a long time before i even saw children of different races mixing, let along ...

Americans. You either love 'em or hate 'em ? apparently. After a few months backpacking around the US of A, I personally couldn?t fail to love them. They, and their country are "just awesome" (as many American would say!). No matter how many times I heard "Wow, I just lurve your accent" or "Have a nice day", the cynical side of me thinking it wasn't really meant did not win over, and I genuinely felt most American?s were delighted to have us visit and make sure we had an 'ace' time! The beauty of the USA is the sheer vastness, variation and extremes of places to see and things to do. This, however, quickly ...