tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22311471275075089772024-03-05T10:34:50.450-08:00Jo and Ju's Grand American Adventure Jo and Juhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09868750360080355722noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2231147127507508977.post-50098584138208322402012-10-27T04:29:00.001-07:002012-10-27T04:29:30.733-07:00Grand Canyon via the Hoover Dam and Route 66<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-XE-Xq2COReIVn72J_kkFPZObvbh50YFWL_MDD6N0Yje8UfM3jDLzSrmj8tQpJ9giUYRSz27qaHCFYpxMafzQ_eCvudg8m68qNCfXrO8BtCpNDRBVvXwFB24ECimS2NdepgVkcUCDHxs/s1600/Condor1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a>We did a post about our day trip to the Grand Canyon earlier but it really needed some pictures, even though it's impossible to do the Canyon justice . . .<br />
The Hoover Dam<br />
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Alfonso's pic of us at the Hoover Dam<br />
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There were lots of amazing views from the road on the way: <br />
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We stopped at Seligman on historic route 66 and took a few pics: <br />
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There seems to be a theme here: <br />
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The most dramatic picnic spot: <br />
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Proof we were really there! <br />
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One of the 300 condors that live in or arround the canyon:<br />
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Sunset over the canyon:<br />
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<br />Jo and Juhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09868750360080355722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2231147127507508977.post-33853169110076444402012-10-27T03:55:00.000-07:002012-10-27T04:14:03.033-07:00San Francisco Wednesday, 3rd October 2012<br />
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We headed across from Truckee to Emeryville on the final leg of the train journey, which was a lot less scenic than the rest of it. Most of central California is quite arid and flat, with a lot of sunshine. We came into the Bay Area in the afternoon and it was still sunny.<br />
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Then, we encountered the San Francisco area and, all of a sudden, there was a pall of fog hanging around it, trapping it in its own little world of fogginess.... We couldn't see the Golden Gate, so that would have to wait.<br />
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The train pulled into Emeryville on time and we did the trip across the Bay on a coach, driven by someone whose driving manner was somewhat reminiscent of home... We arrived at Fisherman's Wharf, grabbed a map of the city from the brusque but efficient tourist person and headed off for the next cab. We both realised, very quickly, that we needed our London "game heads" on and we stepped back into our less-relaxed, wary, selves. <br />
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It would be an insult to crazy drivers to describe the cabbie as crazy, but he eventually got us to the hotel, a few blocks away from the Tenderloin, with its highly visible population of rough sleepers, dealers and pimps.<br />
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The hotel, the Hayes Valley Inn, has two separate bits and we were in the quieter annexe at the back. We had to unlock a gate, and then a main door, to get in....<br />
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The first evening was spent back at Fisherman's Wharf after an impressively long wait for a bus, due to the usual urban nonsense of delays. The Wharf is a great place to hang out, being on the Bay (obviously), with a large choice of restaurants and stuff to see; we saw something of the Sealions, but mainly heard them.<br />
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We had a very nice dinner at a diner(ish) place and headed back to our hotel.<br />
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Thursday 4th October, 2012 <br />
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The next day, we got up early, bought some all-day passes and headed out to the Golden Gate Bridge. There, we met up with a tour guide, Dan, a former high school English teacher. He was doing the tours for free as part of a non-profit organisation, but tipping is customary. He was excellent value for his tour of the bridge, its more macabre history, photos of its construction and so on.<br />
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This is a view from the bridge.<br />
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Tour boat seen from the bridge.<br />
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We walked the 2.4 miles across the Bridge and back, which is well worth doing. They are the best views of SF and it was a matter of pride for us to be able to do something easily, that we would have struggled to do a year earlier. We did have to fight with the cyclists for space, but we're used to that as Londoners.<br />
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The trip across the bridge was punctuated by fly-over displays from the US Navy's Blue Angels team and their F/A- 18 Hornets (versatile fighter-bombers which are normally used on aircraft carriers). Their display was impressive, suitably loud and hair-raising at times, as two of them flew within 10 to 20 feet of each other.<br />
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In the afternoon, tired and hungry, we headed for a Jewish deli place in the suburbs. The food was nice, but the server was Kevin the Grumpy Teenager. <br />
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From there, we headed to Ocean Beach, which is properly on the Pacific Ocean. It was important for us to see and, in Jo's case, dip our toes in the actual Ocean, as opposed to the Bay. The beach was beautifully sandy, very long, and uncrowded. San Francisco is not known for being hot and this day was no exception. It was a great place to spend a couple of hours, though.<br />
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From the beach, we took the long-ish bus ride to Union Square, via the suburbs and the Tenderloin. We had to do the old-fashioned Cable Car (the old school trams you see on TV) and it was a fantastic thing to do. <br />
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We got off and walked down (and then back up) Lombard St, which is the world's curviest- apparently. From there, we wandered back down to Fisherman's Wharf and headed home after some food.<br />
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A police car driving down and the view from the bottom of the street.<br />
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San Francisco is a crazy, vibrant place with a very strong liberal feel. It's as gay-friendly and liberal as advertised, so it's not everyone's cup of tea. Personally, I loved it and I think Jo quite liked it as well.<br />
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Friday 5th October 2012.<br />
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The flight to Vegas happened without any hitches. More to follow about Vegas. <br />
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<br />Jo and Juhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09868750360080355722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2231147127507508977.post-34972317602217352362012-10-14T13:37:00.000-07:002012-10-14T13:37:19.025-07:00Long Train Ride Part 1Our train ride from Granby in the East of the Rocky Mountains, through the Rockies, across Utah and Nevada and up to Truckee in the Siera Nevada mountains took 24 hours. We had a long day of ooh-ing and ahh-ing at the sceanery and took over 1000 photos before it got too dark, sometime arround Helper in Utah. The photos just don't do it justice and many have reflections from the train windows but here are a small selection. This part is mainly the Rockies:<br />
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For part of the journey there were high rock walls on one or both sides.<br />
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Our roomette. With the bunks made up there was about 1 1/2 square feet of floor space. I was warned to use the safety net in the upper bunk as people who fell had become wedged and had to be rescued by fire fighters coming in through the window. I woke with a death grip on the side of my bunk!<br />
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The Colerado River<br />
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Many of the observation car seats could swing 'round to allow you to look out the other side.<br />
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More Colerado River<br />
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Even more Colerado River<br />
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The obdervation car of the Zephyr. We generally managed to get seats but not always on the best side.<br />
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The freeway here gives some idea of scale.<br />
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We followed the Colerado River for something like 200 miles and these are just a very small selection of our pictures: <br />
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Next, onwards across the Utah desert towards Helper and views of the train.<br />
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<br />Jo and Juhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09868750360080355722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2231147127507508977.post-69824020703750150342012-10-14T12:03:00.004-07:002012-10-14T12:03:41.732-07:00GranbyGranby had amazing views, just from the station or the door of our motel room.<br />
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The train at Granby Station.<br />
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The view across the tracks from the station.<br />
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More view across the tracks from the station.<br />
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Another view.<br />
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And another view.Jo and Juhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09868750360080355722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2231147127507508977.post-78977685352577053942012-10-14T12:00:00.001-07:002012-10-14T12:00:45.271-07:00Train from Denver to Granby<br />
We had expected this to be the most spectacular part of our train ride until the conductor enlightenned us. The views were still amazing. This is just a small sample:<br />
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On our way out of the Denver train yard.<br />
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<br />Jo and Juhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09868750360080355722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2231147127507508977.post-8603244680748199422012-10-14T11:55:00.000-07:002012-10-14T11:55:19.106-07:00Denver<br />We didn't take many pictures in Denver as we were busy helping their economy by sampling the wares in the local brew pub and enjoying being able to have supper outdoors in late September, however, we did get this picture of us with Heather:<br />
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View from outside our Motel<br />
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A rabbit in the middle of town. This one was surprisingly bold and didn't seem at all bothered by our presence. <br />
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Rocky mountian national park<br />
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Snow covered mountains, the highest of which was around 14,000 feet<br />
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Rainbow in the Rocky Mountain National Park<br />
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view from Rainbow Curve which was the highest point we reached at 9,600 feet. The Trail Ridge Road was closed past this point because of ice. This was
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One of the many amazing mountains we saw. This was taken just after sunrise. <br />
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Elk in the Rocky Mountain National Park. There was a little bit of a show, with various males surrounding this group, hoping the dominant bull would wander off and they could get to the females. None of them succeeded. <br />
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more elk in Estes Park<br />
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The Space Weather centre with real-life working scientists in it. Jo and Juhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09868750360080355722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2231147127507508977.post-38822507978619136972012-10-09T11:23:00.001-07:002012-10-09T11:23:48.361-07:00Home Safe and SoundWe're now safely back in sunny Beckenham. I thought I'd post a pic or two of the condor we saw. Now we're home and have access to our computers, we'll tell you all about our stays in San Francisco and Las Vegas and start to post a selection of the best photos we took.<br />
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<br />Jo and Juhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09868750360080355722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2231147127507508977.post-71838783671003563102012-10-08T10:00:00.001-07:002012-10-09T11:02:25.220-07:00The Grand CanyonWe're finally getting ready to come home. Happy, tired and already planning our next trip. We'll do a prosper post about San Francisco and Las Vegas soon. Yesterday was our second 'splash out' outing, a small group trip to the Grand Canyon. It's close to Vegas in the American, not the British sense of the word. Our guide and driver, Alfonso, picked us up a little after half seven. He remembered everyone's names and origins, introducing all four couples after each pick up. He was a mine of interesting information about our surroundings and the places we passed through. He knew all the best picture spots and took photos of us too! We stopped at the Hoover Damn which was pretty impressive and at Seligman on route 66 at a quaint souvenir shop. With a couple more rest stops the drive passed surprisingly quickly and it was soon time for a picnic lunch at the most spectacular picnic spot in the world, looking out over the canyon.
Words and photos just don't do it justice. The sheer size is difficult to encompass. It's spectacular, beautiful and a whole list of superlatives. It's also oddly quiet. I was constantly having the jitters that someone would fall. The younger couples in our group were much more daring in perch of that perfect shot! The gift shop even had a rather tasteless book on deaths at the canyon.
Alfonso had told us about the condors which are up to 300 now from a low of twenty. We were all hoping to see one but it sounded like hoping to see a bear.. . . Until we did see one. It was the icing on the cake for an already special day. They're all tagged and Alfonso recognised it as L4 and you can see the tag in the photo we'll post later.
After that, we hurried back to our vantage point to watch the sun set.
The drive back was rather long. Most people slept but Julian wound up getting a Spanish lesson from Alfonso.
It was a wonderful end to an amazing trip.
Jo and Juhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09868750360080355722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2231147127507508977.post-59946981101499476932012-10-02T12:16:00.002-07:002012-10-02T12:16:55.085-07:00More PicturesThis time I thought we'd put a picture of us in Denver with Heather, the beautiful Clydesdale who took us for a carriage ride, some of Granby and some from the train. The latter just don't do the views justice at all . . .<br />
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This is one of the family of beavers we saw near Estes Park.</div>
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Colorado river from the train. Sorry, we didn't get a picture of the mooners!</div>
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Glaciers over Greenland</a><br />
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Rocky Mountain National Park, Longs Peak I think</a><br />
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This guy is apparently a 'B' at best. Below more Rocky Mountain National Park.</a><br />
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Jo and Juhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09868750360080355722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2231147127507508977.post-75628222279589179502012-10-01T13:23:00.001-07:002012-10-01T13:23:33.706-07:00Granby to TruckeeTwenty four hours on the Zephyr felt a little like a cruise. The staff were charming and helpful, food was plentiful and good. There was good coffee on tap and a caffeinated Julian makes me happy too.
We sat with a different couple for each meal, including the chief of police for Salt Lake City Airport! Several people off to Reno for short breaks. Lots of friendly and interesting conversation. The time flew past. The best thing about it was the views. Hour after hour of stunning, beautiful and majestic views. We trailed the Colorado river for a while through the Rockies. Apparently it's traditional for rafters to moon at the train and we weren't disappointed there! We thought the Utah desert might be a bit of a come down after the mountains, no pun intended, but it was equally impressive. Miles of scrub, huge mud mounds which were actually hill sized and the Bookcliffs.
This morning we had to laugh over signalling problems on a Monday morning but we were only a little late into Truckee. The hotel looks a little wild west from the outside but has apparently changed hands since we booked. Our room is rather nicer than expected with some olde world charm. Oh, and it's warm and sunny, again. We're having an amazing time.Jo and Juhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09868750360080355722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2231147127507508977.post-49188748988209771962012-09-29T11:23:00.001-07:002012-09-29T11:23:14.064-07:00GranbyMore from Jo now. Yesterday we sampled beer at the Great Divide brew pub and took a romantic horse and cart side around down town Denver. For company we had Heather, a beautiful Clydesdale, an Afghanistan vet from the 82nd airborne and Heather's driver.
Today we boarded the Zephyr for the short but spectacular ride to Granby. The conductor who recons he has the best office in the world, and who could disagree, says it gets even better! For now we're content in Granby. Our stomachs are full of fluffy pancakes, syrup and bacon, Ju is loving the coffee and Granby is surrounded by hills and snow topped mountains. The sky is an intense blue and the air is so so clear. We're about eight thousand feet up and have crossed the continental divide. We're feeling very lucky.Jo and Juhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09868750360080355722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2231147127507508977.post-3348513822170726272012-09-28T11:55:00.001-07:002012-09-28T11:55:15.386-07:00Yesterday was an amazing day. We saw glaciers and snow covered mountains, all sorts of animals and scenery that left us speechless. Our guide was knowledgeable, informative and made us feel like a friend was showing us round. I have to list all the animals we saw, even if that is ott:
Loads of elk
Mule deer
A red tailed hawk
A nut cracker which belongs to the jay family
A pine squirrel
Chipmunks
And a family of busy beavers.
It was a truly wonderful day.
This morning we finally feel the jet lag has gone and while we were sad te leave the beauty of Estes Park behind, more adventures await.
We're in Denver now at the Magnolia Hotel right in down town. It's a smart hotel. I know Julian had got a good deal but as we walked up to the room, I commented that it would be either a broom cupboard or a palace. Definitely option B. I hadn't realised it was a suite. I feel like I'm in the lap of luxury.Jo and Juhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09868750360080355722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2231147127507508977.post-50836899271295433202012-09-27T12:03:00.001-07:002012-09-27T12:03:35.441-07:00On the Trail Ridge Road<div><p>This was at 9500 feet this morning. </p>
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From Boulder, we caught the "Estes Park Shuttle" to, er, Estes Park. It was a journey of about 35 miles, the last 20 of which was up 2,500 feet- it was really spectacular stuff. The pics don't quite do justice to the beauty of the place.<br />
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The Haber Motel is absolutely fantastic. It's really new and high-spec. The owners very kindly let us check in early.<br />
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To give you a flavour of Estes Park, this is a view from the Safeway car park, somewhat more spectacular than we're used to seeing at home:<br />
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The best pictures are on Jo's camera. We'll add these when we find a PC with an SD slot.<br />
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Estes Park is 7,600 feet up and I actually felt my ears pop on the drive up here. It's a nice small town, although something of a tourist trap. We had lunch in a local diner- nowt posh. I had a chipotle burger and fries and Jo had a very decent Reuben (pastrami and some oother stuff). We spent the afternoon wandering around, going "wow" a lot and wondering if the skittish critters that look a bit like squirrels are chipmunks.<br />
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My (Julian's) observations so far about the US are: a) it's crazy to have to wait for the lights to change before crossing. b) people have been *really* friendly and more genuine than we're used to c) the quality of coffee on offer varies quite remarkably d) the NFL replacement refs need to be replaced themselves and pronto e) spell-checkers on cafe computers should *not* underline flavour when it's spelled correctly, thank you! <br />
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Oh, and in case you were wondering, we saw four Elk (all female) today, merrily making their way to wherever it is they go to. So, to the person who said I'd get a pint for every 20 Elk, be afraid. Jo and Juhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09868750360080355722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2231147127507508977.post-41553060736294783252012-09-25T20:40:00.001-07:002012-09-26T17:04:41.148-07:00Coffee and Space Weather<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Having slept surprisingly well, we were up early to find some decent coffee. Little things keep reminding us we're really in the US. Yellow school busses and mountain views around every corner. Our passes at NOAA with foreign visitor in large letters too. The tour was fascinating, we got to see the space weather control room, explained by their chief scientist. We also had a demo of science on a sphere with projections of everything from weather to earthquakes from our tsunami specialist tour guide.
Boulder seems a very laid back place with a book of Buddhist teachings along side the obligatory bible in our room but there are a lot more homeless people than in London.
We've done lots of walking today but still feel a bit hung over. Off to Estes Park tomorrow. There'll be tears before bed time if the elk which normally come into town during the fall don't show.<br />
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The view above was taken from a cafe on Pearl St in Boulder. In the background are the Flatirons. <br />
Jo and Juhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09868750360080355722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2231147127507508977.post-59073853632215191202012-09-25T05:58:00.001-07:002012-09-25T06:05:07.975-07:00Day one and 5,000 miles later<div><p>So, we made it. We got up at the ungodly hour of 0430 for an 0905 flight. We managed the eight hours to Detroit, the three hour stopover and the nearly three hours to Denver. We finally made it to our lovely hotel about 1900 local time, or 0200 in the UK. </p>
<p>People have been very friendly, offering contact details if we need help! It's really weird to be so far from home but everyone shares your native language. Other awesome stuff? The view over Greenland, of which we'll post pics later, and the Rockies. </p>
<p>Today, we're off doing fun stuff. More later!</p>
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