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Aviemore, United Kingdom

Hey

So landed back in Scotland on Sunday morning and met the parents and of back to Aviemore, I leave Scotland Saturday morning very early, heading for Birmingham, darrens place to be exact.

Be great to catch up with people and hear what has been going on and likewise tell you all about this amazing experience i have had

This is the last entry for this trip

Could you please mail me at kilvoaway@hotmail.co.uk your mobile phone numbers due not having a phone yet sorted.

Thanks see you all soon

Ian x
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Whistler, British Columbia, Canada

Happy New year to all,

So, not updated this for a while due to being very busy, training with the ski patrol and the opening of the season has being insane.

February is the month i return to the U.K and Darren has kindly offered me his spare room in his new place, i am not going to lye to you it is going to be very weird living back in England compared to the experience i have had out here but a good thing will be able to catch up with all of you, that is one thing i have missed not seeing all of my family and friends...

Christmas was nice, dinner at home with the house mates then the evening was at a restaurant, very nice. New year was a house party at mine, all my house mates had to work so my friends here came over and we had a great selection of food appies, salmon, chilli, lots of liquor and a hot tub...crazy crazy night...

Tuesday and Wednesdays are my rota days off, so this morning i was up very early to get first gondola up and ski the fresh powder that had fallen over night, waist height at some points, amazing ...there is a video i have added to this of me skiing the pow!!

Hope all is well with all

Ian x


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Whistler, British Columbia, Canada

Hi,

So got offered a full time job as a Pro Ski Patrol, which i am stoked about.

I was up on the first day of the mountain opening and it was great to be back up there.
Just had a dump of snow down to the Village, so loads of Powder on the mountains

Pictures to follow

Ian x
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Whistler, British Columbia, Canada

Halloween in Whistler is a big thing, so i decided to go all out on my costume, Body paint and a age 7-8 turtels costume.......which had to be cut in half.

Jake and i went down to Squamish to get our costumes and body paint.

A long time getting ready i can tell you, body painting takes a while, Jake was Rafaiel and i was mikealangio.. from the tenage mutant ninja turtels.

everyone looked good

Just waiting for the snow to fall hard now..

Ian x
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Grand Junction, Colorado, United States

Two days in Las Vegas was enough, we headed to the Grand Cannon, but first crossing the Hover Dam then onwards towards the Grand Cannon, we stopped one night in a remote village south of the Grand Cannon in a cheap motel, not bad really, I am getting use to these motels now.
The next day was up early to get to a little airport to catch a Helicopter flight over and around the Grand Cannon, a amazing views as you will see in the photos.
Once landed and re-united with the car we headed for Mohab, famous for the stone carvings sights in the middle of the dessert, Carved soft rock from wind, rain, and earthquakes.
We then headed for Grand Junction, were we would aboard the Amtrax train for our 30 hrs journey to San Francisco....great!!!!,, once aboard and found our rabbit hutches, the train departed, beds were bunks which were also seats, Train full of stupid, crazy, fat Americans and Darren excited about his train experience. The rest of us looked at each other thinking what the next 30 hrs had in for us, Dinner was nice in the dinner cart, sleep was on an off with the train rocking and the train horn going off all the time.....
Breakfast was good, then went back to sleep then got up went for lunch, then wrote my blog and now only 1 hr away from San Francisco, thank god!!!!! Seriously it has been an experience and I am glad I have done it but also very glad it has come to an end...
Ian
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Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Leaving a cold but exciting snow covered mountains of Whistler, Matt and I head to Vancouver for him to catch his flight home and for me to catch my flight down to Las Vegas to meet Darren, Anne and Dave.
1 hour and 40 minutes later I land in a very windy Vegas, so windy in fact rumor around the airport was that it was going to close, It did shortly after..
Darren and co flight was due in half an hour behind me but canceled from Amsterdam due to the plane being over booked, So first night was on my own in Vegas, I received a txt from Darren saying the hotel Luxor are expecting me, I head there via the airport shuttle and walk into this enormous pyramid, unbelievable the pure size of this hotel, I head for check-in and I am told by the receptionist that my room has already been paid for by Ms Anne Turner, so thank you Anne again for that.
The room was very nice, I dumped my stuff and went to look at the sights, the casino was ahead of me, the atmosphere of noise and slots machine was what I expected from Vegas, I found a place to eat and had lamb shank and a nice glass of red and just people watched looking over at the gamble tables and slot machines.
Once I eaten dinner, I decided to go for a stroll, and get outside to see the neon lights of the strip, The hotels with all there own themes and looked amazing.
I walked down so far and decided to head back, due to wanting to see the rest of the sights with Darren, Anne and Dave, so I went back to the hotel room and got some rest.
Darren flight was now due in at 13:50, so I looked around a bit more in the morning then headed for the airport to welcome them to Las Vegas.
That afternoon they were tired obviously due to Jet lag, so we went down to the pool and relaxed, that night we had a buffet in the Luxor, then headed out to see all the sights, The only thing we bet on was a slot machine, I put in $3.00 and left with $11.00, that was it my betting was done for Vegas. We just walked through each hotel, I especially enjoyed the Belagio, we made it all the way down to the stratosphere, Jet lag was kicking in for the guys so we headed back to the Luxor and called it a night.
The next day we got our hire car and headed for the Grand Cannon.
All the best
Ian x
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Whistler, British Columbia, Canada

Our last night in Los Angeles and still on a budget we decided to go and grab cheap meal, so we met a guy in our dorm at the hostel and we all decided to go out and eat at Hooters....say no more..

The next day we had our last bit of sun on the Bay-watch beach and then headed north back to Whistler, We stopped one night in the city of Sacramento not really much say about the city, clean, quite got to our hostel and slept well due to driving nine hours and another long drive the next day aiming to get to Portland around a 11 hour drive but it needed to be done.

We did it and crashed out that night in this hostel in the middle of a hotel...weird a big mansion with nice suites and also our dorm..They brew there own beers and had 13 bars on the complex it was were all the local people go for the weekend and relax, we went to one bar for one beer then crashed out again....

The next day was the border crossing into Canada and back to Whistler and we made it in 9 hours and Betty did fine you will be glad to hear, well i was anyway.

Moved into my new place for the winter and wow our own private outside hot tub, balcony four rooms en-suites big lounge that looks at both ski mountains right in the middle of the Village..

We had a party with some of my friends up here, with the hot tub involved a bit of a temperature change from 30 0c in California to 0 0c in Whistler.

Fly down to Vegas on Saturday to meet Darren, Anne and co so thats it road trip completed

Ian x
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Los Angeles, California, United States

Heading south down the coast highway, i can feel it getting warmer and we end up in Santa Barbara, A very nice place, clean, long gold coast beeches, palm trees so we decided to stay three nights and check out the town and laze around on the beach.

Whilst we were on the beach a plane did sky writing and on the picture you will see what it says, very skilled....

The hostel was small but very nice, only five Min's walk from the beach.

We both did not want to leave but knew we had to and headed for Malibu for a quick stop then onwards south to Santa Monica, ten miles out of downtown L.A and Hollywood.

The hostel here is big and we are in a dorm with four other English lads and one Italian poor,Italian guy...

Today we drove down to Hollywood walked the walk of fame, drove as close as we could to the Hollywood sign and found Burt Reynolds house/Mansion, our day was complete.

An update from Whistler, Whistler has already had snow in the village and a lucky few got to ski powder already, so cool, i wish i was up there, anyway log onto www.whistlerblackcomb.com and you will see a video labeled October 5th, its going to be another epic season, for those of you that are visiting me..

All the best

Ian x
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Santa Barbara, California, United States

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San Francisco, California, United States

Driving down through the wine country that is known as Napa into San Fransisco bay, going over the Golden gate bridge into the hustle and bustle of the city, we arrive at our Backpackers hostel in a not very good area, but the hostel was great, clean, quite and we had an en-suite not bad for $20 a night.

We settled in and had an early night.

The next day we were up and off to explore the city, a nice clean vibrant city, so much better than Seattle, walking through the city towards Pier 39 to look at Alcatraz in the distance and the sea lions making a noice while they sun bathe on the dock. it was nice to also feel the sun on us in temps around 28 0c, not bad for October.

We got a bite to eat downtown and then headed back to our hostel.

Thursday awoke, had our free bagel and o.j and planned on doing the tour to Alcatraz but unfortunately they were fully booked to Saturday, so no good for that, so Matt and i decided to head for another trip which took us under the Golden Gate Bridge and around Alcatraz Island an hour an half tour on the choppy waters....

After we headed for the cable tram and rode up and down the hilly streets back to Union Square, Matt had the last seat so i had to hang on the side board, an experience with the US drivers speeding past you.

That night we headed out on the town and found some very nice bars hidden in the San Fransisco streets, and ended up talking to two English girls from London, who were traveling from New York to L.A in a hire car and then to Australia, they seemed a good laugh so we all explored the night life together. A Bouncer gave me a list of good places to go, so hence when you see the photos of me plotting the route on the map in a bar, you now know why.

This morning we left early and headed for Santa Cruz, to camp but to our dismay we could not put the tent up because it was far to windy and the tent just keep falling over with all the guide ropes in and to top it off a tent went rolling past us into the bush while we were trying to hold onto ours, so we packed the van back up and headed for a cheap motel

So there you go, i will leave you with the pictures, best withes to Elizabeth Moxey on her recovery, I am glad to hear she is getting better, you had me worried for a while x

All the best Ian x
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