At home in East Sussex getting ready for our big family holiday in America. Very excited and lucky to be going for a second time to this beautiful region. Starting at the Tanque Verdi Ranch for the first week and then travelling around starting in Tucson again but then visiting wonderful parts we have not been to before. We leave here on 15th February so still a couple of weeks to go to get organised! Waiting for my sister-in-law to come down this afternoon wi...

Up early today had breakfast and took a taxi to a local shopping mall. Alan has a friend who works there in a Micro Brewery. We found Alan,s friend, the brewery has a restaurant so we had a drink and lunch there. Had a wander around the shopping mall and then made our way back to the hotel. It was a beautiful day so we decided to go to the pool it was bliss. Packed our cases as Claire,John,Nick and I are catching Amtrax Train to New Orleans early tomorrow morning...

Nick got the hang of the waffle machine this morning so we all had waffles for breakfast! We sorted our cases for tomorrow when we fly to Las Vagas,we are leaving our main luggage at the hotel in Tucson as we are returning on Thursday. We skyped the family was good to see them all. It was a beautiful hot sunny day so we went to the pool and had a swim and a lay in the hot tub. After this activity we lazed on the sun beds reading, it was bliss. Poor June has the c...

Off on another trip this time to the Desert Museum. On the way Alan got the driver to stop at a place called Gateway in the Desert it is a viewing place surrounded by mountains looking across the Desert it was beautiful with a forest of cacti and hiking trails leading up into the mountains. We arrived at the Museum what a place interesting plants wild animals, reptiles, birds, and fish. We went into the reptile house and saw so many different snakes including a f...

Bed nice and comfy breakfast fine but not as good as at the ranch no beautiful berries! Claire feeling better this morning and Alan much improved. The mini bus picked us up at 10am to take us to Tucson Rodeo! What an exciting day the Rodeo was amazing. Cowboys trying to ride enormous Bulls and fabulous wild horses it was awesome! Cowgirls in beautiful glittery blue costumes doing routines on their horses. Cowgirls and Cowboys lasooing steers and tiring them up...