Cooling down in Calico!

August 23rd 2012
Well, after the madness of Vegas comes the rush of LA. Quite a drive in a hot desert to get across on a Monday morning: we made a decision to stop off at "Calico Ghost Town", an authentic ex-mining town from the silver-rush days of the late 1800's. It was an interesting place, but it has to be said the temperature was again in the 100's, and the best we could do was seek out occasional ... read more

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Mike Walters

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"Funny, Intelligent & Organised"......according to my family..... ...."Bad Pool Player", "Wears Loud Shirts" and "Mostly Well Behaved" according to some friends..... I do like to travel, although with a growing family that has mostly been UK and some of Europe. In my youth I did a fair bit around the US and Europe....and with work I have done even more of those (although generally a work trip is *not* a holiday, despite what friends might think!). So this blog has started as a means of recording a monster family USA trip very very soon.....we will see where it ends up ! ... full info

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