honeymoon usa 2006

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