Woke up at six o’clock to a tremendous din coming from the street outside. Shouting and banging on drums. What?! It’s 6.00am for goodness sake. A woman with a particularly shrill voice was bellowing into a megaphone, so I got out of bed and looked out of the window, to see where the noise was…
Take a lift to the top of the Empire State,Take a drive across the Golden Gate,March, march, march across Red Square,Do all the things you’d ever dare. ‘The Things That Dreams Are Made Of’ – The Human League Visiting San Francisco to go over the Golden Gate Bridge was, for me, one of the major…
Let’s go to San FranciscoWhere the flowers growSo very high.Sunshine in San FranciscoMakes your mind grow up to the sky. The Flower Pot Men, 1967 What a great day we had today. So much to see and do. It was another early start this morning, as we left El Capitan hotel and Merced and set…
We were up and dressed in good time this morning, and enjoyed some coffee and a breakfast bar in our room. Then, at 7.45am, we hefted our rucksacks and cases (yes! our cases!) down in the lift to the hotel foyer, and waited for a few minutes while Frank brought the coach round to the…
Do you remember the good old daysBefore the ghost town?We danced and sang and the music playedIn the boomtown. ‘Ghost Town’ – The Specials Got up at 7.30am and got washed and dressed before we went downstairs to Chick-fil-A for our breakfast once again. While we were there, we saw our driver Frank come in…
It was around 8.00am when we got up this morning feeling quite optimistic. During the night we had received another confirmation from Fed-Ex, that our suitcases would be delivered to the Golden Nugget “before 10.30am”. We hoped that they would be, as we couldn’t wait to don our swimming things and spend a leisurely day…
Day 7 – No luggage!! Oh, Las Vegas, you’ll be the death of me,City of Sin,Oh what a mess I’m in.Look what you’ve done to me. Las Vegas – Tony Christie As our time was now our own in Las Vegas, we could have a lie-in so we did, getting up at 8.00am. We were…
Day 6 – No luggage!! Got up at 7.45am and noticed I had a missed call at 6.45am in WhatsApp. Who on earth calls at that time of the morning? I always have my phone on “do not disturb” between the hours of 11.00pm – 7.00am which is why I hadn’t heard the call come…
Day 5 – No luggage!! What is this life if, full of care,We have no time to stand and stare. ‘Leisure’ by W.H. Davies We were up at 7.15am to put the coffee pot on and eat a cereal bar. We also had a cold glass of grapefruit juice each, as the luggage was still…
Day 4 – No luggage!! Got up at 7.15am and set the coffee pot away while I went in to shower. At least the hotel had provided shower gel, shampoo and conditioner. I couldn’t blow-dry my hair because I didn’t have my hot brush or straighteners with me, so once the air-con had dried it…
