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I wasn’t on my own as I travelled across the USA.  David came with me the whole way and Gladys was there almost throughout. The Sibley ‘Guide to birds‘ was in the passenger seat of my Hyundai Sonata right the way across the USA.  Border Patrol officers glanced at it and were reassured that I…

Just a few thoughts for travellers to the USA, particularly from the UK, based on my experience.  And my experience, of two long trips now, is based on driving long distances and not planning ahead too much so that you have the flexibility to go where the road takes you. Driving across the USA: it’s…

  For what it’s worth, here is my bird list for five and a half weeks in the USA – just over 300 species and over 80 lifers (in bold).  On a careful run through Sibley I noticed I’d missed out a few species – western grebe (from California), black vulture (from Arizona) and roadrunner…

I covered 8270 miles in the USA and visited 20 states (TX, LA, AR, MO, KY, IN, OH, WV, WI, MI, PA, NY, IL, KS, CO, UT, NV, CA, AZ, NM) which means, completely incidentally, that I ‘need’ to visit only Oregon, Washington, North Dakota, Iowa (how did I ‘miss’ Iowa again?), Oklahoma, Mississippi, Alabama,…

I have said too little, I feel, about the music which has accompanied me across 20 US states in just over five weeks. With a little help from Francis Sinatra; Thank you for coming to fly with me to see what spring is like in Michigan, Kansas and Utah. We saw Chicago in passing, which…