Today is Wednesday and alarm was set for 6.15am but we woke up early anyway. We were on track by doing the online check out from Paris Hotel to save some extra time and we were out the front of the Hotel by 7.00am as planned to get a Taxi. The weather was a bit different this morning as a thunderstorm has arrived with a bit of rain and lots of lightning (not ideal for flying on a plane). Our Taxi ride to the airport was smooth and took about 15-20 minutes Our driver has been living in Las Vegas since 1972 and in his words “bigger is not always better”. We had a few final views of the strip and saw the new massive sphere building that will be an exciting new Las Vegas addition ... read more

We had a late start to the day as we were so tired after yesterday and had breakfast in our room being yoghurts bought from the nearby CVC Pharmacy. We decided to take the Deuce bus to South Las Vegas premium outlet centre and it was only a short walk across the strip to catch the bus. We bought the unlimited 24 hour pass which cost $8- each. Another stinking hot sunny day around 35 degrees. I did not know what to expect at the outlet centre but I knew it wouldn’t be as good as it was when we were here for Christmas in 2010 when our currency was at parity with the USD (maybe even a little better) when we spent big here. The first purchase was at the Nike store where I got ... read more

A very cool start to the day but the temperature will be climbing from 15 to 23 degrees between 8-10 am. It’s another sunny day and will get to 30 degrees today. We have vouchers to have free breakfast at Porters and I had an omelette and Kerry had the fruit parfait along with some fresh OJ. We later caught the Springdale town shuttle from the front of the hotel down to the Zion NP entrance. It’s Saturday today and as we walked into the NP the ranger said it was free entry (I wish they said that yesterday when we drove in !). It was a short walk from the entrance to the visitors centre where we joined the huge line to catch the canyon shuttle but the line moved fast so with around 200 ... read more

We woke up and opened the curtains to find sunshine. Maximum temperature will be around 30 degrees. You beauty ! I chose a simple continental breakfast with toast with Philadelphia cream cheese, a strawberry yoghurt, corn flakes and coffee (can’t have cooked breakfast every day or we all know what happens then ?). Only a short 1 minute drive to Chief Tsosie’s depot for the Upper Antelope Slot Canyon Tour. The tour goes for 90 minutes but it takes about half an hour to get there so we will spend 30 minutes inside the canyon. This adventure along with visiting Sedona were two things Kerry discovered early days when researching this holiday and neither of us had ever heard of them before. The drive out was on a shuttle van and it was nice to see ... read more

Woke up to a cloudy morning and reflected on how the Pink Jeep tour experience yesterday would easily rate in the top 10 experiences of our USA travels to date without doubt. We just had a yoghurt on our balcony with some OJ and then hit the road at 9.20am for the first leg to Flagstaff. But just before we jumped in the car we had a quick game of Cornhole next to the carpark. We both eventually landed the bags but no-one got a bag in the hole. The road climbed in altitude and the temperature dropped accordingly and it was 16 degrees when we arrived at our designated breakfast spot the Galaxy Diner on the old Route 66. It was really interesting how all the cactus trees disappeared once we rose to the frost ... read more