My suitcase nearly packed Nick's being done Sunday hopefully. New Travel Card arrived today thank goodness, managed to get it set up again, sigh of relief!! Was snowing a little today hopefully wont get any worse or we will be leaving Tuesday to stay in London overnight before our flight on Wednesday. Taryn,Corrie and Scarlett staying tonight.

Pouring with rain today so Nick was unable to work. We decided to go to Tunbridge Wells and sort his international driving certificate out. We also went to the opticians to order Nick's new glasses which hopefully will arrive before we go on holiday! That was the positive holiday arrangements today. The negative was finding out someone in America has been using our Post Office Travel Card!!! The card has now been blocked and we have to wait for the money to be ...

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...

Sun is shining this morning now we are leaving!!! Going to airport at 11.30am should be home lunchtimeish tomorrow. Taxi picked us up to take us to Memphis Airport for our flight to Chicago. All goes well and we are soon on plane. Just one and half hour flight. Small plane with lots of shaking and knocking we survived though and were soon landing in Chicago. Straightforward at Chicago (Very busy airport). 6 .10 pm finds us boarding Jumbo British airways plane to...

Last full day of our adventure in Memphis. We are being picked up this morning for a tour of the city including Sun Studios and finishing with a trip to Gracelands. It was a great tour we visited Sun Studios where Elvis,Jerry Lee Lewis,Johnny Cash and Karl Perkins and many others recorded records.Saw some beautiful houses. Visited the Peabody Hotel where ducks live on the roof and everyday at 11am they come down in the elevator and walk along the red carpet to a ...