Our Great American Road Trip 2011 is taking us from New York City to New Orleans and we’d love you to follow along! Today we were in Manhattan, New York – with the pictures to prove it…Enjoy!

Stop 4 on our NYC2NOLA road trip! Safe and sound in the sunny Appalachian mountains in North Carolina, we just love Asheville, Biltmore and hiking the AT…Also taking suggestions for our next stops in Charleston and Savannah

We spent the last two days in the Carolinas – visiting Charlotte in North Carolina and Charleston in South Carolina.

Day Two in New Orleans brought us from alligators in Louisiana’s wetlands to live jazz on Frenchman Street!

The past three weeks traveling on this NYC2NOLA road trip have been so much fun, and making our ultimate destination New Orleans turned out to be exactly what we needed. As expected when having so much fun, time flew and we found ourselves yesterday with a giant list of places we still wanted to explore so we decided to maximize our last day in the city by renting bikes from The American Bike Rental & Tour Company.

This week’s Polaroid features the “L”, Chicago’s iconic elevated metro which has been operating since 1892.

We fly to Asia this week and, after six months of European and U.S. travel, it is back to hostel life – and hostel kitchens. Luckily we have a few easy recipes under our belts, like this Pasta Florentine, which we are entering in the Hostelbookers.com Backbacker’s Recipe Guide contest.

My kind of town, Chicago is…this week’s Polaroid celebrates classic bright lights of this big city.

This week: It’s scaly, green, but still manages to be the cutest little thing in the swamp…

Our Polaroid of the Week this week: The long way up – the climb up Cerro Negro volcano outside of Leon, Nicaragua before we lava-boarded down.