Photo story

Here, in roughly chronological order, are the edited highlights of the Great American Road Trip.

Deals Gap in the rain

Ran out of talent on the Tail of the Dragon

Deer on the Skyline Drive

...and bears. Oh my!

Birthplace of the Blues

Crossing the Mississippi

Top quality accommodation

Cozy Cone from Cars? It exists

The very old Route 66

Santa Fe

Do you have anything spicy?

Painted desert

Route 66

Petrified Forest

Grand Canyon

Rainstorm in the canyon 

Named after Hoover, but this certainly does not suck

Bandits in Las Vegas

Elephant seals in the Pacific

Pacific coastline drive

Sun and fog on Big Sur

Hills and cable cars

Named after the pelican

Some of these trees are older than the New Testament

Tacoma Narrows

Ferry to Seattle

Volcano

Utilikilts shop in Seattle

Elk

Exactly the same shape as Bambi's arse

Little Big Horn

Custer's Last Stand

Knutter's Knoll

Devil's Tower, Wyoming

Sturgis 2012: 72nd annual bike rally

Mount Rushmore from the cheap seats

Badlands buffalo

Badlands prairie dog

The Badlands

Apparently the world's largest Bakewell Tart

Badlands bighorn sheep

It rains in Illinois

The Chicago Bean

Sunset over Chicago

Early evening in Chicago

Frank Lloyd Wright: master of the rectangle

Prairie style in the suburbs

Inside the Robie House

Fallingwater

27 states and 8888 miles

I promise to write some actual words soon.

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Discovering America

The Goat has been rather busy of late. He's on a huge Road Trip with his Beloved Wife all over the United States. Change in the Goat's employment status [ahem] has produced a chance in a lifetime for an entire month's holiday.

He's taken hundreds of photos so far and logged over 3000 miles in his father-in-law's car. There are also pages upon pages of notes that will, in due course, be condensed into some blog entries. The ferocious itinerary doesn't permit daily blog entries, and the Goat does not believe in posting without at least some proof-reading and editing of the text.

In short, the Goat and Beloved Wife are making a slow clockwise tour around the Lower 48. Please call back occasionally: the Goat has not ceased to blog.

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