Just before 3am we got up in order to be awake at the same time of Little Nan's funeral, it felt only right to do this with everyone back home and also helped us. We played songs that to us held relevance as to why we had chosen to stay on the trip and how we felt so far away. We overlooked the Nevada Dessert and the bright lights of Vegas, David's Nan loved any sort of sparkly coloured lights and was also claustrophobic. So bright sparkly lights and the widest ...

Las Vegas is a truly remarkable and wonderful place, but if you are not careful it will chew you up and spit you out unless you treat it with the respect it demands. Our arrival here and time here were not quite as we had planned, so for this story we need to go back in time. Half way back to Orlando and it was early morning which is normally the time we contact people at home if we are going to. Today was different though in that David felt a need to contact h...