Yesterday was our last day in Vegas and was also our wedding anniversary. This is really where planning for our mammoth trip started - coming to Vegas for 5 days for our honeymoon (albeit a year late). From there it got extended in both directions (by several thousand miles). It is crazy to think we're only halfway through our trip. We've done so much and it feels like we've been here for a month already! We had an early start (6am to be precise) because we book...

The rest of yesterday was long. We went out with the aim of getting to the Luxor hotel, right up the south end of the strip. The plan was to get the monorail from Hurrahs down to MGM then the tram from Excalibur to The Luxor. First of all we wanted to explore Treasure Island, visit the pirate ships, where they no longer do their show, then check The Mirage out, to go and see the Dolphins. Once we got over to the Mirage, an attack of hunger came so we got a Carneg...

We're now almost two days into our stay in Las Vegas and it has been awesome so far. This place is properly crazy and we love it! For a start, it is boiling hot (100 degrees fahrenheit to be precise). It literally feels like you are walking into a sauna out there. Apparently this is cool for the time of year, but we'll happily accept 'cool'. There are water spritzers on the streets, blowing out a fine, cool mist that is very welcome in the heat. We are staying i...

So sitting on our Grand Canyon train, on the Coconino carriage, with Mark as our guard, he said something very profound on the way back into Williams. Now those of you who know me well know that I have a terrible memory, but what he said was something a bit like this.... Life is not measured by how many breaths you take, but by how many moments take your breath away.... It was very apt, especially as The Canyon had taken the breath right out of our lungs! I'm ...