honeymoon usa 2006

Last night of luxury at the magnificent 1905 El Tovar Hotel in Grand Canyon Village £70

Toasting the flatlands of the Navajo Nation from the East Rim of the canyon – lunch £25

2 Homeward bound whisky & cokes at Phoenix Airport £8

Drive along highway 68 to view the Native American adobes at Taos Pueblo £15 for petrol and lunch

1 night at Mabel Dodge Luhan House (where DH Lawrence helped paint the bathroom!) £50

A stop off at Roswell to see Georgia O’Keefe’s Ram’s Skull With Brown Leaves in the Roswell Museum £10

Scoot along Highway 380 – £15 for petrol – to visit the grave of Billy the Kid in Lincoln and lunch – £10

2 nights in La Fonda de Sante Fe Inn on the corner of Sante Fe’s main plaza £130

A day at the Georgia O’Keefe Museum £16 tickets

Trip to Georgia O’Keefe house in Abiquiu & lunch £25

Visit to the Buddy Holly Centre (£3 each)

Bus to Lubbock Cemetry end of 34th St Buddy Holly Grave – flowers and a toast in honour of…..£12

Pilgrimmage to Buddy Holly birthplace 1911 Sixth St and lunch £15

Drive to Clovis – £10 – and tour of, yes, you guessed it, Buddy Holly’s 1950 preserved Studio (very exciting) £15 each

Petrol to get there and an afternoon at the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame £40

2 cowboy hats, extra cowgirl/boy regalia and 2 cold beers at the Maverick Trading Post £25

Take us along the ROAD TO AMARILLO £20

A spot of culture at Austin Museum of Art (£5 each)

Beer, home cooking & country music at Threadgills £25

Homage to Janis Joplin on a night out at Emo’s £20

1 night at La Quinta Inn £60

Drive down under the southern most tip of the Rockies…..1 night luxury hotel at the Camino Real £100 

Day trip into Mexico – seafood meal and tequila £25

Desert driving in the Big Bend National Park and 1 night at Chisos Mountain Lodge, views of the canyon £75 

Night in tucson motel £25

Visit to Sonora Desert Museum to see the rattlesnakes and tarantulas £12

Daytrip to the failure that was the Biosphere 2 (like Eden Project but with humans too) failed after inmates were found smuggling in mars bars. £15

Petrol to drive through the old mining towns down to Tombstone £20

Watch gunfight at the OK Corral re-enactment in downtown Tombstone £7

Burger and beer at Big Nose Kate’s saloon £12

Observe the Chinese foot-long merman exhibited at the Bird Cage Theatre £6

We fly into Sky Harbor International Airport……..

Airport hotel £30

3 days car hire £35

Next morning off we go down Intersate 10.

Saguaro National Park, 50ft high cactus

Round of cold beers to enjoy the cactus forest and the desert for the first time £5

Dear friends, family and other notables in our life, thanks for looking at our cheesy but nonetheless necessary HONEYMOON blog.

Yes, we know it’s mercenary, but after much discussion with some of you, we realise that buying wedding gifts for people such as ourselves, who have been living in sin for some years now, can be tricky.

And let’s face it, we already have a lot of old crap in our flat (5 banjos; 2 badminton rackets; 1 motorway roadwork halogen lamp; 1 rusting desert sign; 3 1950s home organs; 1 map of the journey of St Paul through the Eastern Mediterranean; 1 non-functioning scrambler motorbike, 1979; 1 stuffed diving duck; a complete compendium of modern Arabic fiction; 2 sets of antlers; 1 stuffed diving duck; 1 WWII petrol can; an entire set of maps for cycle routes within the M25; 2 copies of Gaddafi’s Green book; 1 rhinestone buddha; a significant collection of brass band LPs; 2 toasters and 1 kettle, to name just a few) and as such….

if you do insist on buying us a wedding present (and believe us, your presence in sunny Almeria on 11th November will be more than a gift to us!) then we would be very grateful if rather than buying us STUFF, you would consider helping us out with some of the finer details of our honeymoon……a road trip through Arizona, New Mexico and Texas in the USA.

The posts on this blog break down our honeymoon into activities for different legs of the trip, you can sponsor any of these as your gift to us. If you decide upon a part you feel you’d like to be assosciated with, then leave a comment on here so we know who you are and when to apprecite your gift, then post a cheque to the address on your invite to fund the activity.

Hopefully this all makes sense…..it’s an easy way to give us a memorable gift, of course all this is only an idea, so read on and see what you think………