Lightning report from Vegas
Trip Start
Oct 18, 2006
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24
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Trip End
Apr 04, 2007
Las Vegas,
Nevada,
United States
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Well this is the first chance I've had to put keyboard to monitor cos we've just been too busy having a great time! :)
The reason I do have time to write now is because I'm sitting here waiting for my photos to download onto disc, so that I can erase them all from my camera's memory card (which stores 1,117 pictures [I've filled it more times than I can keep track of and it's going to be a labour of love to sort through them once we get home]) ready for the start of the next leg of the trip. So I thought I'd grab the chance to post a quick update. (The pics are taking a long time to download after all *sigh*)
Once we got to the States we stayed in LA for just one night before driving our rental car to Las Vegas. Hosted by friends in both places :)
I promise to elaborate on the reports on both the Fiji and the States-so-far legs of the trip as soon as I get a chance, although I get the feeling that that might be after we get home.
But as we fly to Heathrow from LA, leaving on Tuesday 3rd April, arriving on 4th, that means we'll be home in two weeks (although it might be a while after that before I elaborate on the entries)!
People have started to ask us, "How do you feel about getting home?"
My answer is that I feel ready... although I sometimes wonder if it's just that I've managed to talk myself into feeling ready!
AD has been so enjoying almost everything about travelling that when he is asked the question, he usually replies that he could carry on living like this for a long time yet, given the choice! He has been in his element, in so many ways.
Our plans for the next couple of weeks: We leave Vegas tomorrow and go to the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. Then return to Vegas just for the night en route north, via Reno to San Francisco. After a couple of nights there we'll make our way back to LA in time to spend a few nights there before we fly home.
I will take any chance I get to update this blog, and elaborate later if the entries are as skimpy as this one!
If you've been meaning to get round to sponsoring us for the events that we've undertaken in the name of the Miriam Hyman Memorial Fund but haven't got round to it yet, the update on our fund raising is that we have raised just over half our target of one thousand pounds so far. So don't forget that you can find our online sponsorship page on the ORBIS website, and here's the direct link
http://www.ukorbis.org/bins/fund_page.asp?cid=9-3397-4017&lang=1
although you can find it by following the link on the Home Page of www.miriam-hyman.com
Thanks as ever to everyone who has been in touch - I haven't managed to respond to each email, but they are all treasured :)
We'll write again asap.
xesther & AD
PS The photos are almost finished downloading now *whew*
