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Road Trip USA from New Orleans to the Bayou
Crossing the border from southern Mississippi into Louisiana feels more like Queensland to Indonesia, or California to Mexico. The change is dramatic. There’s water everywhere, for a start, and gumbo...
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From field to supermarket, things are amiss
Road Trip USA was envisioned to serve a number of purposes, one of them to visit small, rebel farmers who are concerned enough about the impact of large industrial agriculture to participate in...
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Swimming across Texas
To really experience Texas, you have to drive across it without air-conditioning in the middle of July. No, not really. But we did. The unrelenting heat may have coloured my impression of the biggest...
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Swimming across Texas
My latest piece on Crikey is up: Swimming across Texas. Here are a few bonus photos of our time in vorTexas: We'll take what water we can find, like so many before us... West Texan gardening Off to the...
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High Adventure from Taos to Mesa Verde
If intense colours, imposing mountains and rich indigenous histories are your travel must-haves, then the 260-mile stretch between Taos, New Mexico and Cortez, Colorado will deliver your dreams in...
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High Adventure from Taos to Mesa Verde
My post on New Mexico and Colorado went up last week. Here are a couple of bonus photos for that one. Dried chilies selection in Santa Fe! Found the tortilla presses for me & @crazybrave! Mmm......
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Be-Utah-ful
When Brigham Young stopped in the Salt Lake Valley in 1847 and said ‘This is the place’ to his Mormon followers, thank goodness he was too worn out to head south. For the quite beautiful but heavily...
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Be-Utah-ful
Here’s my Crikey piece on Utah, one of the most beautiful and pristine parts of America. And the usual bonus pics: Twin Rocks Love that palette Chicken parmigiana on balsamic raddichio with cous cous...
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Breathless in Oregon rivers
Dictionaries should define ‘breathtaking’ as ‘Oregon rivers’, an obvious double entendre for the initiated. And if it’s not the rivers that make you gasp, there are the mountains — either steep or...
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Oregon – the End of the Road Trip
A captured moment of cousins capturing an image... I forgot to share my final Crikey post on Road Trip USA: Breathless in Oregon Rivers in the wonderful madness of returning to Oz and moving directly...
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