We were up at 5am ready to leave Flagstaff to get back to Las Vegas. We managed some time for breakfast and were on the road in good time. We made a few stops along the way, one for Mark to nap as he was tired and to top up on coffee! I haven’t driven this time as they wanted to charge us, whereas last time it was free. Hmmm! We made it back to Vegas in just enough time to drop our stuff at the hostel and to fill up on petrol before returning the car. We mooch...

After our late night, a late morning was only expected!! Time just seems to fly by! We got the bus to the end of the strip and went for a mooch in Mandalay place hotel which has a shopping centre within it! We wanted to mooch at the shops and Mark got some new flip flops! The hotels are the sort which you wouldn’t need to leave if you didn’t want to; they all seem to have restaurants, bars, clubs, casinos and shops! Very snazzy! From there we headed to MGM ...

We got up quite late, partly because the bed was too comfy and we were watching tv! We had seen on the weather that it was going to be windy but nothing prepared us for what awaited us outside!! With the 30’c heat came up to 25mph winds!! Was an interesting day, took us twice as long to walk anywhere!! Anyway, we are staying on Freemont street which is further down than the main strip and is like a mini version of it with lots of things happening, entertainmen...

We got up early and filled up on breakfast before sadly making our way to the train station to leave San Diego! Humf!! The train was on time and we got seats on the ocean side! We had some amazing views of the ocean and managed to a get a few pictures. There were so many people running or surfing! We got delayed about an hour into the journey as they were doing work on the lines and we had to wait for other trains to come through. We were also informed that there...