We are fortunate to have a midday flight to San Francisco which means a sleep-in for the girls. a leisurely hotel breakfast for Nige and Clare and time to calmly fill the car with gas and return our trusty Chevy Suburban to the Alamo rentals with plenty of time to make our flight. This is a short 1.5 hr flight and we get the chance again to see Las Vegas from the air-this time during the day - a perfect ring of bustling humanity surrounded by desert. We land in S...

Here we are in sunny California. One moment we are soaring over the seemingly endless city lights of Los Angeles marvelling at the sheer size, the next Nige is steering us through the tangled web of freeways as we head north west to Glenys and Chucks. Not without the odd moment of stress but generally all good thanks to our good friend GPS! To assimilate with the locals we spent our first day at the local mall - when in California, shop! Next day we braved the ...