Pre-Flight

Pre-Flight

We're booked on and I've changed seats! Quite painless and the BA site came on-line at 3.45 as it should have. It worked really smoothly. Having had to deal with similar sites before I was not looking forward to using it but I was very pleasantly surprised at the ease of use. Well done BA.

The passes are printed as is the itinerary. I'm still pack, unpacking, repacking.... argghhhhh! It's difficult, I find it difficult, deciding what to take and what not to, for three weeks. It's the electronic bits and pieces. I'm reluctant to put them in case for the hold as I'm never too certain how well they'll fair. I suppose if push comes to shove I can. Also I bought another set of bags, £20, comprising holdall, rucksack, gym bag and boot bag. These are excellent value. The holdall be useful on the way back as an extra bag; the rucksack is for me; the gym bag will be excellent for washing; the boot bag for putting all the electronic bits in.

I've had a dodgy shoulder joint for three weeks now. I moved the layout of my computer equipment and I think that it did my shoulder with the new position of my mouse. I bought some Deep Heat and have rubbed it in... aaahhhhh relief at last. I won't be able to use it on the flight when it'll be really useful.

Time to sign off. The next time I write this will be, God willing, is in the USA

Preparation

Welcome to My Holiday Blog

Ready, Steady, Go...
Denver to Denver and San Diego to SF

It's now 36 hours to go before we fly out. This is the big holiday! We're going to be away for just over three weeks and I'm driving nearly every day!

I've planned this journey out carefully but even so I suspect there'll be problems. I would imagine that they'll be road diversions but this time the satnav will guide us, I hope. It'll save using the maps although I've MS Roads and Trips on the laptop. We've all the documents, money, etc. The satnav is programmed up for the first leg and for the second part the itinerary is ready to go too. I'm just wondering what I've forgotten, if anything. We're taking plates and cutlery so we can buy in and use the microwave ovens.

What makes this exciting is all the places we're going to visit. If you look at the map all it really gives is the broad sweep. Denver, Glenwood Springs, Grand Junction, Grand Tetons, Yellowstone, Cody, Mount Rushmore, Deadwood are just some of the places we'll visit.

After that(!) leg we head over to San Diego and go up to SF via LA and Salinas.

Here's the list:

• Denver
• Dillon
• Glenwood Springs
• Grand Junction
• Dinosaur National Monument
• Vernal
• Pinedale
• Jackson
• Grand Tetons
• Yellowstone
• Cody
• Little Bighorn Battlefield
• Buffalo
• Mount Rushmore
• Wind Cave National Park
• Deadwood
• Fort Laramie
• Denver
• San Diego
• Los Angeles
• Santa Barbara
• Salinas
• Berkley
• San Francisco

It's going to be interesting all the way. I'll up-load some pictures as we go along and try and fill this in each day.