The most beautiful places in the United States. Check out our top 10 places you simply have to visit on a Western USA road trip.

When we set off on our three-month road trip through Canada and the USA, we had pretty naive ideas about what camping in the USA and Canada would look like. Here's everything we learned about free camping, finding showers, and surviving long drives.

We'd been talking about visiting Alaska since we started dating. Getting to Alaska from Europe isn't easy — flights alone cost a fortune, and Alaska is one of the most expensive parts of the USA. Here's what we discovered and the 10 best places to see.

Postcard-perfect mountains, turquoise lakes, and bluish glaciers opened up before us as we arrived on the Kenai Peninsula — the part of Alaska we all know from those famous, almost kitsch photographs. Before officially entering the peninsula, we stopped at the quirky port town of Whittier on Prince William Sound.

"You know we just smuggled across the border everything we confirmed we didn't have? A weapon (bear spray is considered a weapon), alcohol, fruit, and commercial products." Crossing from Canada's Yukon into Alaska turned out to be surprisingly smooth — and that was just the beginning of our wild Alaskan road trip.

We spent two weeks camping on the Hawaiian island of Maui. Sleeping in beachside campsites and inside the Haleakala crater was an exotic experience we'd never had before — here's what camping in Hawaii is really like and how much it costs.