Dear Americans,
This summer, I'm planning to travel around the American southwest with a couple of friends(strictly speaking, we'll be doing a bit more than just the southwest: my friends want to see California too, and we're thinking about including Colorado). They're going for three weeks, but because I'm already going to Madeira with my wife immediately before that, and because I'm self-employed and it will cost me too much to take a whole month off work, I'm only going for a week or ten days.
I'd like to see Arizona, the Rockies, New Mexico, and perhaps the Pacific (just to say I've seen it from both sides), and I'm not particularly worried about travelling up California to see big trees like my friends. My friends want to see Las Vegas, but I already promised my wife we'd go there together.
So my question is, can anyone recommend anything in particular? We won't have time to visit anywhere at length, but we'd like to catch some of the highlights, or just see some amazing stuff. And does anyone have any tips that might make the trip easier, cheaper, more fun, or whatever?
Oh, and I solemnly promise that I will never again in my life scoff at American tourists "doing" Europe in a fortnight.
This summer, I'm planning to travel around the American southwest with a couple of friends(strictly speaking, we'll be doing a bit more than just the southwest: my friends want to see California too, and we're thinking about including Colorado). They're going for three weeks, but because I'm already going to Madeira with my wife immediately before that, and because I'm self-employed and it will cost me too much to take a whole month off work, I'm only going for a week or ten days.
I'd like to see Arizona, the Rockies, New Mexico, and perhaps the Pacific (just to say I've seen it from both sides), and I'm not particularly worried about travelling up California to see big trees like my friends. My friends want to see Las Vegas, but I already promised my wife we'd go there together.
So my question is, can anyone recommend anything in particular? We won't have time to visit anywhere at length, but we'd like to catch some of the highlights, or just see some amazing stuff. And does anyone have any tips that might make the trip easier, cheaper, more fun, or whatever?
Oh, and I solemnly promise that I will never again in my life scoff at American tourists "doing" Europe in a fortnight.
