A few months ago, after an exhausting flight, we finally landed in the USA, the last part of our RTW trip. Originally we thought of driving cross-country from LA to NY but have been advised not to waste our time speeding along the epic route 66, through too vast empty spaces, too boring. So we decided to focus our energy and budget on two coastal routes, along The Pacific Coast and the Atlantic Coast, and on a tour across the wilderness of some of the best known Californian and Arizona National Parks.

Over the past months we were busy sorting out our travel, sitting behind the wheel for long hours, finding a motel for the night, eating fast food. As result leaving little energy and time for blogging.

This is because America is undoubtedly huge and its size makes even the most intrepid travellers dizzy to get around it. There isn’t really an extensive and efficient transport system that could get you everywhere with no hassle. USA isn’t either a backpacker budget destination, so we couldn’t really waste precious time and money to rest on our laurels and had to keep gaining ground.

Plus, if you consider that when Chris and I are tired we could barely think straight in Italian imagining it in English, you know... we are only two Wops who love travel around the world but far from being travel writers (even if we give always our best shot).

Maybe we should have followed the “Strategies for keeping up with your blog once you start travelling” by David or Anil’s advices on “Quick things to post on your travel blog when you are travelling too much to write”, aren’t they great?

Anyway, what we are trying to say is that we are now going to catch up with all our travel tales from our USA road trip, where the journey itself, rather than the destination, was the real protagonist and the nitty-gritty is that we managed to enjoy yet many sunshine days.