<!-- @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> Friday 20th Feb, early flight to Denver, Colorado, known as mile high city. To be really accurate, the second step outside the Town Hall is exactly one mile (5,280 feet) above sea level. Denver lies to the east of the Rocky Mountains, the spine of mountains which run down most of the west side of Canada and the northern USA. Denver is where the US mint is located, pressi...

We left Hawaii on Feb15 and flew for four and a half hours to reach San Francisco. We are in a new time zone, now just 8 hours behind the UK. San Fran is really busy, loads to see and do - but after our beach break in Hawaii we were happy to be active again: We were staying just next to Union Square - really central. On our first day we walked around Chinatown, always an interesting tour and up and down many of the steep hills - from some we had a brilliant ...

<!-- @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> Aloha! On Jan 31 we flew halfway across the Pacific Ocean to Honolulu on the Island of O'ahu in Hawaii. We arrived the day before we left (Jan 30) and are now 10 hours behind GMT, rather than 13 hours ahead. The climate here is lovely, nice and warm, not too hot. We stayed in the famous Honolulu suburb of Waikiki, where the beach runs the length of this part of the islan...