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Day Five, Grand Canyon, Helicopter!
Read more: Day Five, Grand Canyon, Helicopter!August 6th 2014 – Day 5, Grand Canyon, Helicopter! Woke up at 6, nudged Jeff who said he didn’t want to go for a run, but he got up 10 minutes later and we went for the most scenic run ever. Here’s the run. The first half was very hard, due to altitude, but also,…
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Day Four, Grand Canyon
Read more: Day Four, Grand CanyonAugust 5th 2014 – Day 4, Grand Canyon Would have been the perfect night’s sleep, except Daniel’s alarm went off at 4:30, this had been set for Vegas and he forgot to turn it off. We left the lodge at 9:30 and got a bus to the Visitor centre, booked helicopter trip for tomorrow. Then…
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Day Three, on the road to Grand Canyon
Read more: Day Three, on the road to Grand CanyonAugust 4th 2014 – Day 3, on the road to Grand Canyon Slightly better night’s sleep, but once again wide awake at 3am for an hour, could hear stag party somewhere but not too loud. Our room was actually peaceful, noise wise. Up at 4:30 and then out at 5:10 am, taxi to bus station.…
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Day Two, Las Vegas
Read more: Day Two, Las VegasAugust 3rd 2014 – Day 2, Las Vegas After terrible night’s sleep, got up at 10:30. Ate at expensive but queue free MGM Buffet. When we left at 11:30 queue was huge. Walked to Luxor in the rain, and looked for elevators to the top. Got to 30th floor but highest floor with view was…
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Day One, Las Vegas
Read more: Day One, Las VegasAugust 2nd 2014 – Day 1, Las Vegas It’s 3:30am in Vegas and 11:30am in London and, predictably, I am wide awake… Our day started at 6am yesterday, taxi at 8 to Gatwick. Flight delayed by an hour due to blocked toilets. Then a 10 hour flight which was actually was not as bad as…