Welcome to the diary of a road trip

IN AUGUST 2008 a British family enjoyed an amazing month-long vacation: a week in Los Angeles, two weeks driving across America and a week in Manhattan. This is the online diary of that holiday.


Use the navigation panel on the left to read the journal in chronological order.

The weekly chapters contain the individual posts. Click on the triangle arrows to the left of the week to see lists of each separate entry.

Coloured text links to external websites related to the subject and other relevant sites are listed on the left.

Martyn Moore (above, in pool) is a writer and editor from England, his wife, Laura (far right, crazy hair) is a nurse and clinic manager. Charlotte and Katy are the couple's daughters, aged 15 and ten at the time of the holiday. Bill Rutherford (blue t-shirt, left of Grand Canyon photo) is Laura's father and a retired policeman from Glasgow, Scotland.