OK folks here we are back in the hood we are here for another 2 nights before moving on and have managed to get free use of a laptop for an hour!!!!! I am starting to think we are the kings of freebies. Have a day of shopping,train booking and baseball tomorrow so will be in touch when we can. Hope everybody is safe and well at home. Take it Easy Marcus and Mel

OK guys you are getting your fill today!!! We took the Thruway connection from Denver to the Springs (its the greyhound long distance bus) Man they have all the weirdos and crazy people all together on them things. Once we had checked into our motel in Old Colorado City we had a little of the afternoon left to play with and decided we needed to unwind so found a cool little bar which we sat in called Meadow Muffins this place was unbelievable it had draft beer at...

Sorry we haven't updated for a while guys but the internet access out here is pants starting to wish we had brought a laptop!!!! Had a great journey overnight from Omaha into Denver and found our hostel its not in a desirable neighborhood unless you like drugs or PORN (martin) but the room is OK but you don't want to be out after 8pm!!!! We spent our 1st day doing a lot of boring things like laundry and booking onward journeys, you have to be one step ahead of th...

OK some of you sharp shooters might have noticed that we aren't in Cincinnati as originally planned in our route but are actually in Omaha, Nebraska!!! We caught the California Zephyr Amtrak train out of Chicago yesterday afternoon and arrived here a little before midnight on the 8th. We took this route after a tip off from a guy we met in the hostel in Montreal. After sleeping right through breakfast and surfacing around 9.45 we took the free shuttle bus(yes fre...

Well Guys it has been a scorching day here in Chicago. We went onto Union Station to collect our train passes for our 30 day rail adventure around America. We then decided to do something that we have not done in Chicago and take a guided boat tour from Navy Pier down through the Chicago River looking at the buildings and getting a good insight to the city. In true backpacker fashion we had saved some of our pizza from last night (which was delicious) and had tha...