San Francisco, CA July 3rd & 4th July 3rd. We’d been late to bed the night before so made a very slow start to the day. Mark and I eventually headed out for a walk to Whole-foods to get a few grocery items. This place leaves DJs food hall for dead!Mark and Tom then bought… More
San Francisco, CA Tuesday July 2Mark and I started the morning with a walk down Market St to the Farmers Market at the Ferry terminal. It was a beautiful and sunny morning and the outing was a brisk 30 min round trip. The morning was rather cool and offered some relief after the heat we’d… More
San Francisco, CA Monday 1st July Mark and I headed to the gym for an hour at around 8am before then collecting a sleepy Tom and heading back down to the pool for a swim. I had asked for some vineyard help on a Tripadvisor and we received info about 2 Sonoma vineyards that we… More
Napa, CA Sunday 30th From Yosemite to The Westin Verasa Napa Our accommodation was ‘Yosemite Lodge at the Falls’ and I considered our trip incomplete without a walk to said Falls. The restaurant where we had dined for the last two nights was located near the Falls and offered good views but this wasn’t enough… More
Yosemite National Park, CA Sat 29th June.Breakfast for us was a simple bowl of cereal in our room.We set out after 9am to do a walk along the ‘Mist Trail’ to Vernal Falls. This is considered by many to be one of the ‘signature’ walks for the Yosemite area. Info link @ http://www.yosemitehikes.com/yosemite-v alley/mist-trail/mist-trail.htm A… More
Yosemite National Park, CA Friday 28th: Lone Pine, Death Valley to Yosemite http://www.yosemitepark.com/yosemite-lo dge.aspx : Room 3204 I slept poorly and was awake from 3am. I gave up at 6.30 and got up to try out the coffee machine. It only took 2 attempts. Mark and I went for a walk up the road to… More
Lone Pine: Death Valley, CA Thursday 27 June We woke to another beautiful but scorching day with clear blue skies.Mark and I headed to the gym before we checked out from our Las Vegas Hotel. I noted that we were ‘Leaving Las Vegas’ and hoped that we were going to fare better than Nicolas Cage… More
Grand Canyon Day Las Vegas, NV Las Vegas, NV Wednesday 26 thWe had a wake up call booked for 6 am due to our early tour start but I was up early which was lucky as the wake up call seemed to sleep in! The automatic shutters opened to reveal another sunny and magnificent cloudless… More
Our first day in Las Vegas Las Vegas, NV Las Vegas, NV http://www.vdara.com/ Tuesday 25thWe got away from the LA apartment at 9.3o am. Mid city had a 25 block Police ‘lock down’ following an overnight shooting. Two policemen were shot at whilst returning to base but, luckily, we were not caught up in any… More
Our last day in LA Los Angeles, CA Los Angeles, CA Monday 24th June: Mark headed out early to pick up the rental car from LAX. I tried out the gym and Tom slept in. He woke feeling much better and well able to tackle another day. We weren’t too sure what to do today.… More