Part 2 of our stay at the Bread & Puppet Farm, featuring protests, grief and half a pink elephant

Hello! It's been a while, but I won't let a little thing like not being there any more stop me writing about America. Here are my thoughts (and Leyla's incredible pictures) of two of the most incredible weeks of the whole trip: our stay at the Bread & Puppet Farm in Glover, Vermont. This one has the lot: haunted puppets, dense bread, and ninety-year-old man with a fat cigar.

Hello again, it's been a while! Read all about our 2,216 mile road trip that took us through six states and countless National Parks, and enjoy Leyla's photos from some of the most beautiful areas of America.

Our visit to two American icons set in stone, Mt. Rushmore and the Crazy Horse memorial, gets me thinking about how we honour the past...

A scramble up the base of Devil's Tower, Wyoming, gets me to thinking about the stories we tell...

A whistle-stop tour of America through its always tasteful, ever subtle signage. Think the stars and stripes are just for flags? Or every T-shirt on every person you see? Think again...

Nashville, the music city, but is it trying too hard?

Thoughts on our stay in Gee's Bend, in the heart of Alabama. A magical place of craft and art, geographically isolated and steeped in a painful history.

Think being stuck on a Greyhound bus for 11 doesn't sound like a rich seam of material? Think again...