RoadTrip Blog

Welcome to the RoadTrip America Blog! A number of RTA correspondents from around the globe post here. What we all have in common is a love of roadtripping in North America. For the most part, this section of the site is archival in nature. There will be no new posts here. (If you'd like road trip advice, please check out The Great American Road Trip Forum.) Enjoy the ride!

Those with a Facebook account may be interested to learn of an update to the Terms & Conditions applied to your content. At the beginning of February, Facebook basically assumed an “irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense)” to do what they want with any content you put up there, and to use “your name, likeness and image” for whatever they want.

The big change however, is that they can do this forever. Previously, if you terminated your Facebook account, all their rights ceased at the same time. This is no longer the case. 

This probably doesn’t matter for most people – it’s just a bit of fun social networking – but you might want to think twice about posting any photos or creative content. There’s a more detailed explanation of it all on the MarketingVox website.

Peter Thody

I was fortunate in the fact that while returning from one of our jaunts down to the West country we happened to be passing Stonehenge as the sun was about to set.

Within half an hour it had gone from this

To this

Unfortunately the light was changing so quickly I struggled to capture it fully in film but it was an amazing sight, even though I have passed by many times before.

If you “cut to the chase” they are just some rather large rocks in a field, yet they “entertain” people from all over the world and still baffle scientists and archeologist’s as to how they got there and for what purpose. They do know they are very,very old and some of the large rocks found there way to this site from across the water in Wales. It has been suggested they were used for worship, or by early Astronomers, even placed there by the devil himself. It has been said that over 300 million hours of labour was used. Who works that one out ?
Whatever it is, it still captures the imaginations of millions of tourists. Hey, wait a minute ! Is this the first man made tourist trap ever built.

Dave Gomm

Here are some images I shot of the Racetrack Playa in Death Valley National Park in April, 2006. Here is an article that describes part of that journey.

Mark Sedenquist death valley, sliding stones

These vivid fire photos were shot in April, 2008 while covering a wildfire that burned within 1/4 mile of homes in Sierra Madre, California.

Bruce Jones sierra madre, wildfire

Valentine’s Day is also the 13th birthday of the launch of RoadTripAmerica.com and the 5th anniversary of the launch of Living-Las-Vegas.com. Nice to know we are in good company for birthdays!

Mark Sedenquist birthday