This week we cross the rainbow to discover the friendliest state on earth, visit a slightly more clapped out older cousin of a piece of famous Disney architecture, and pop in for some remarkable fizzy drinks.

If you would like to read ahead, the book that these episodes are drawn from, Mouse to Mouse: In search of Walt Disney's mythical America by Lee Brooks is published by Theme Park Press and available at Amazon.

After a one week hiatus we are back, resuming our travels across America, this week, stopping off in OKC, sweltering in the Myriad Botanical Gardens, discovering one of the quintessential inventions of the motor age and communing with science.

If you would like to read ahead, the book that these episodes are drawn from, Mouse to Mouse: In search of Walt Disney's mythical America by Lee Brooks is published by Theme Park Press and available at Amazon.

This week we meet Jasmine, the charming, but easily impressed checkout girl and triumph against adversity in the race to 'discover' Wichita Falls.

If you would like to read ahead, the book that these episodes are drawn from, Mouse to Mouse: In search of Walt Disney's mythical America by Lee Brooks is published by Theme Park Press and available at Amazon.

This week we visit a town called Happy, and one, perhaps a little unfairly ranked the most boring in America, a well as finding out why one of John Wayne's most famous, and controversially racist characters actually started out as an African American slave! 

If you would like to read ahead, the book that these episodes are drawn from, Mouse to Mouse: In search of Walt Disney's mythical America by Lee Brooks is published by Theme Park Press and available at Amazon.

This week our very British family struggle with the perils of air conditioned slumbers, experience the delights of Tinkertown and vandalise a quintessential icon of Route 66.

If you would like to read ahead, the book that these episodes are drawn from, Mouse to Mouse: In search of Walt Disney's mythical America by Lee Brooks is published by Theme Park Press and available at Amazon.

This week, an encounter with wide blue yonder, a pocket full of rocks and John Wayne's bedroom all feature on the trip from Arizona to New Mexico.

If you would like to read ahead, the book that these episodes are drawn from, Mouse to Mouse: In search of Walt Disney's mythical America by Lee Brooks is published by Theme Park Press and available at Amazon.

This week, we leave Las Vegas, and encounter zombies, sand storms and Santa Claus as we really start getting our kicks along the world's most famous highway.

If you would like to read ahead, the book that these episodes are drawn from, Mouse to Mouse: In search of Walt Disney's mythical America by Lee Brooks is published by Theme Park Press and available at Amazon.

Ever driven through a desert in pitch darkness, only to emerge into a cathedral of neon? We have, and this week's episode tells that story, and one about what it's like to visit Sin City with a couple of kids in tow.

If you would like to read ahead, the book that these episodes are drawn from, Mouse to Mouse: In search of Walt Disney's mythical America by Lee Brooks is published by Theme Park Press and available at Amazon.

This week, in a slightly delayed episode, the family finally hit the open road, and start to discover  the America that exists outside the Disneyland bubble.

This week the family get their final glimpses on Disneyland before they hit the open road, and Lee, once again displays his mature approach to parenting.

If you would like to read ahead, the book that these episodes are drawn from, Mouse to Mouse: In search of Walt Disney's mythical America by Lee Brooks is published by Theme Park Press and available at Amazon.