| More and more people are getting in their | | | | Everyone should see the beautiful arch that |
| cars and driving across the USA or across | | | | marks the entrance to St Louis at least once! |
| Canada on a vacation trip that they may have | | | | Next we traveled further south towards Texas. |
| planned on doing for years. The price of gas | | | | We bypassed a lot of states since we had a |
| has been somewhat of a deterrent, however the | | | | plan in mind. We wanted to see the Texas |
| price of fuel is going up regardless of | | | | panhandle and into Amarillo, Texas. What we |
| whether you drive, fly, take the train or the | | | | got was miles and miles of scorched earth! |
| bus! Traveling by car allows you to see so | | | | The fires that spread across Texas have to be |
| much more that we are convinced that this is | | | | really seen to be believed. Miles and miles |
| the best and the only way to travel and see | | | | of blackened grass really tells you just how |
| the various sites across America. One of the | | | | immense these fires can be. We were a bit |
| things we discovered is that there are so | | | | disappointed in Amarillo, so we moved on to |
| many different interesting things to see and | | | | Roswell, New Mexico.Roswell, New Mexico, of |
| do, that we are already planning to do this | | | | course is home to the Roswell UFO museum. |
| same trip all over again.We started from | | | | This museum got its start with the cover-up |
| eastern Canada and traveled through Windsor | | | | of the crash of a UFO in 1947 by the US |
| and Detroit and headed towards St Louis. | | | | military or so it is claimed. |