day 87 miles 6,448 The drive through the Mojave Desert wasn't anything like we expected it to be. The image that the name Mojave conjured up for us was windswept sand dunes and hot temperatures. The part of the Mojave we drove through to get to Death Valley was none of that. Instead we saw mountains with so many different colors in the rock -greens, burgundy, yellow and oranges. There were also large flat areas where minerals have leached to the top that are called salt pans. We also saw some wild life - a coyote to be exact. He stood [View Full Entry]

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It was early morning and we jumped on the Deuce heading to Mandalay Bay to be picked up for my skydive!!!! A hippy looking dude drove us to Boulder City Airport. I arrived and had a 10 minute prep talk on how to do the banana. I got into my jumpsuit which was number 13. Everything moves very quickly and before I knew it I was on this little plane with the door open right next to me and I wasn't even attached to a parachute yet because I was going first. I finally got hooked up mid flight next to [View Full Entry]

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A special treat for Ali and Natasha! [View Full Entry]

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Finally the day that Karen and Dave have been planning arrives and there are two significant things that hit us.....firstly Dave has had to call out the doctor as he had a fever - HE IS OK - but obviously with the day ahead he wanted to feel his best. The doctor prescribed some drugs to get him through the day...thankfully they kicked in pretty fast and he was able to enjoy the helipcopter ride. The second thing was the ranched called to say it was SNOWING.....in the flipping desert and that we should bring warm clothes. This was entirely unexpected [View Full Entry]

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As promised here are some of the photo's taken by the guys who went by helicopter. Just to set the scene, on Tuesday there were 60 mph winds, on Wednesday it was only 40mph - pah - no problem - hehehe! It was a little bumpy to say the least and there was a least 1 green face as they arrived! I think you'll all agree the views are spectacular! [View Full Entry]

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Here are some photo's as promised....connection has been a little temperamental so bear with me! [View Full Entry]

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We're in the middle of a desert....you're thinking hot, humid and dusty......think again! The temperature has dropped, it is very windy and grey looking. Hmmmmm nevermind, we are Brits and these things don't faze us! Dave has also woken up this morning with a cold so he is having a pampered day and plenty of lemsip! Our day begins with a eat all you can buffet in the Luxor - we all did our best to consume $15 worth but I think we may have failed on this occasion. The buffet beat us this time but there are 3 more days......oh [View Full Entry]

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Finally after nearly 24 hours we arrived at The Luxor Hotel Las Vegas .....knackered, sweaty and very very pleased. Frances was extremely well behaved apart from the take off from Heathrow in which she screamed the plane down but apart from that she was as good as gold! Certainly too much excitement for her - planes, airports, escalators, wide open spaces to run and the discovery of dairylea dunkers! So we all arrived at Heathrow to find chaos........yep half term has a lot to answer for! Queue after queue meant that we only had time to grab a coffee and toastie [View Full Entry]

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Hi Everyone, Hope all is well back in the UK. I've been busy and therefore haven't written a blog in a while... Sorry to keep you all hanging! We've had all extremes of weather here. A couple of weeks ago I worked in a day of rain, it was just like England, didn't stop all day! We have also had a lot of snow at the cabin then to top that off last weekend I was in intense heat at Death Valley. It was about 40c, over 100f. Death Valley was great fun, very dry and hot so I ditched my [View Full Entry]

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Due to popular demand we figured we should at least let you see our rock and roll life style in Vegas The drive to Vegas was deserty (bet your learning so much reading this blog aren’t you!) and wow was it hot, we only stopped briefly for gas and food but boy was I glad to get back in the car with the air con. I was really hoping to get excited on arriving in Vegas as so far I hadn’t been that impressed with what I had seen of California, so I was pleased to feel a small butterfly as [View Full Entry]

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