We were lucky and slept well. The train isn’t as smooth as the ones we’ve been on before and we end up all over the place when trying to walk around! We can’t believe how quick the journey went and we had much prettier views today, including the Missouri river and the Mississippi River. We have been through the states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Illinois while on the train. We arrived in Chicago at 3pm and found o...

We had a reasonable night sleep considering we’re on a train! There wasn’t anyone behind us so Mark moved so we could spread out. We’ve had some interesting views along route, cities, mountains, snow, dry land, flat land, cows, horses and the moon at 3pm! We stopped at Albuquerque for 1hour 30mins as we made up some time on the way. We mooched about the city but there wasn’t much to see! We finally found some stamps for Ella and Tom’s postcards! They d...

We were up bright and early..again! We had to catch the bus from Vegas back to LA. It was a better journey than expected and we arrived back in LA to bright sunshine, unlike the rain when we left! We had planned to go into town but it was too hot and our bags were too heavy to carry! This station doesn’t have lockers either! Instead we chilled in the ’outdoor patio’ reading and observing the proceedings of a wedding! Our train wasn’t until 6.45pm but we ...

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...

We had another rubbish sleep, we kept getting static shocks from the blanket and sheet, and not just a shock but a spark as well! Was quite scary! We headed back to the Grand Canyon and to the Bright Angel trail. We wanted to hike down into the Canyon and this seemed the best trail as there was various rest points so you knew roughly how far you were in order to plan when to come back up. We headed down and it didn’t take long until we seemed quite far down th...