Seeing the US through Dutch eyes: Dallas, Kennedy, Miss Ellie and Longhorns
Summer again, free time from work and school, and a great vacation ahead of me! This year we have a trip planned to visit South of the U.S., Texas, the Grand Canyon and a part of Colorado. You are used to my blogs about gaming thoughts, would you mind if ...
Seeing the US through Dutch eyes: San Antonio, a Spanish vibe and longing for Mickey
Second town we visited on our trip is San Antonio in Texas. I think for Americans San Antonio is best known for the Alamo, in early days as a Spanish mission and then the site of the 1836 battle that cost a lot of lives, but in the end won ...
Seeing the US through Dutch eyes: Amarillo and big in Texas
"Show me the way to Amarillo..." That's where we stopped for a day on our road trip to the Grand Canyon. We weren't entirely sure what to expect there, and a good thing too that we didn't have high hopes. Maybe we missed something, but we couldn't find anything that ...
Seeing the US through Dutch eyes: Albuquerque, quaint and quirky
Next stop on our road, the city of Albuquerque in the state of New Mexico. What a name! We couldn't resist checking online where the name came from, and we weren't surprised that it has Mexican roots. Wiki is unclear whether the name comes from the Spanish town of Alburquerque, ...
Seeing the US through Dutch eyes: the Wonders of the Grand Canyon
4 a.m. in the morning, and my phone alarm is blaring. Sleepy-eyed I drag myself out of bed, wondering if the big and exiting plan we had is as exiting in the early morning as it seemed the night before. But, we manage, and after a short drive and walk ...
Seeing the US through Dutch eyes: Page and the Navajo Nation
Leaving the Grand Canyon, we drove to our next destination, the Red Rock country around Page, Arizona. Somehow it was appropriate, as we're kind off following the Colorado River upstream to the Rocky Mountains. While we still had woods up to the Rim of the Grand Canyon, now we drove ...
Seeing the US through Dutch eyes: movie magic at Moab
Our next stop was still in the Red Rock country, as we drove from Page in Arizona to Moab in Utah. Surrounded by various National Parks, like Canyonlands and the Arches National Park, we had our choice of things to visit. We chose Arches, beautiful, rugged and wild, and don't ...
Seeing the US through Dutch eyes: laid back in Vail
Our next stop on our road trip: Vail in Colorado. Not that we had specific plans there, but we needed somewhere to relax before our final destination, Denver. So we thought this town looked nice on Google maps, nestled in the mountains. Vail is well known for being a skiing ...
Seeing the US through Dutch eyes: ending on a high in Denver
Our last destination was Denver, from where we would fly home to Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam. Now Denver is unlike any city I've seen. The 16th Street Mall, running from one end of the city center to the other, seems to attract all kinds of activity and people. The trolley ...
Seeing the US through Dutch eyes: the Hall of Fame
In the month July I talked a lot on my site, but hardly any of the articles was about gaming. For almost four weeks I kept you up to date about our travels in the MidWestern USA, visiting breathtaking sights and doing lots of fun stuff. Aside from making thousands ...