adventurous, thanks for that, and welcome to the site. Actually I don't cope with jetlag too well, although rather better going that way than coming home to Blighty.
sven Thanks, I've sent away for the DVD from the BBC, I do remember it from a showing last year and it really is good.
Anyway, we are having to put off this trip until next year because we are now going to Jordan and Israel instead; we have found that I won't be allowed to hire a car in Jordan if I'm over seventy and I really really want to see Petra as well as lots of other things. Sod going by organised tours. Well that's how we feel at the moment, but some time in the future... who knows, perhaps we'll be glad of them.
As far as I know there's no such age restriction on renting a car in the USA, even on a Ford Mustang. Fingers and everything else crossed on that.
Thanks for all your replies they [/I]will[/I] come in very helpful next year.