Route 66: from Chicago to Santa Monica, America's legendary road
The most famous road in the United States, from Chicago to Santa Monica: 3,940 km, eight states, neon-lit motels and villages that have stayed in the 1950s.
Big Bend: the Texan desert where the Rio Grande draws the border
A desert, a mountain range and the canyons of the Rio Grande, at the far end of Texas, on the Mexican border. Immense, remote and almost empty.
Guadalupe Mountains: the highest point in Texas, an ancient fossil reef
The roof of Texas: a range of dry mountains that is in fact an ancient marine reef, with canyons, white dunes and a great deal of wind.