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    Great wildlife spotting today, Including a sea otter we watched catching crabs and eating them, could hear them crunching and sea lions on the pier at Santa Cruz. Beautiful scenery and sunset
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    In the woods in a cabin, shit WI-Fi so keeps repeating posts
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    Ive been saying similar most days, that drive from East Texas to California is massive over the most harsh terrain imaginable...the thought of doing that in wagons and horses, is crazy...would've been amazing too lol.. We wont get to Napa Valley, weve headed South out of Santa Cruz, only done 75 miles to get to Big Sur... another great day and nice to reduce the driving... oh and we changed our flights from Friday to Monday, so will get a weekend in San Diego... not told the kids yet lol
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    Couple of videos of our off road track. The forest is still severely damaged from huge fires in 2016! https://youtube.com/shorts/6k-0W2-oQ1Y?si=Q03g8WU2kLZ5DuSl
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    Cheers Dave.
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    Thank you mate, we'll definitely br passing LA, so may well stop for that lol.. Had thr best food the last few days, dim sums in Vegas (Hakkasan in MGM Grand) and an indian tonight in Santa Cruz... oh and those sandwiches in the diner today.. proper tasty food and not too much salt!! Lol
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    Well we made it started on the east coast in the Florida Keys on 27th Devember, after an amazing road trip through 15 different states, we arrived on the pacific West Coast this evening... and the ladt 2 days drives have possibly been my favourite, Death Valley from Nevada into California was something other worldly, recorded as the hottest place on earth it had mountains, sand dunes, salt flats that look like huge lakes from above, canyons and a ghost town on the way in, finishing with driving through a desert into the dark.....it had the lot.., but the drive today from Ridge Crest to Santa C
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    What an atmosphere and what a fight...
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    Do you know what mate, we often.have these chats, but, we're really lucky, we live in a beautiful part of our country and generally I really can't complain about much... im not blind to what's happening in the UK, but I think there are issues everywhere you go, its what you make of life in the end I suppose... my ideal would splitting my time between places, maybe that'll be the USA in the future, who knows... The whole experience has been amazing though, the Stares is an amaxing place to tour..heading for our last stretch down the Pacific coast to San Diego, think we might even book flig
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    Las Vegas completed!
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    We ended up in Fremont street, im hanging this morning...lol
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    Im glad someone noticed my strategic props lol
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    Yeah just spoke to my brother, who's been here, he said they same.. Just need the wife to finish getting ready so we can hit the strip! Lol
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    P.s didn't mean "haha" at you being snowed in! Hope alls good mate, somehow we've avoided that huge storm that is hitting everywhere we have been.
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    That's exactly it mate, listening to then sharing their knowledge, and interacting with them is what makes these kind of trips... Id love to go to New Zealand, that's certainly one for the future.
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    Haha! Mate, booked it this morning on a booking.com special, £135 for the night, got to front desk early, she said our room wasn't ready but could upgrade straightaway for 50 dollars...yeah OK, at least we can get ready and get out.. she had a little smile when she handed the keys and said " you're in the top floor suite"... lol... Might stay 2 nights now lol
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    Holy shit, just been given an upgrade to the top floor in the MGM signatures, 38th floor in a suite, the wife is in tears again lol
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    Only showed the native the big prints, the smaller ones were just to show Greyman as I was unsure if they could've been a smaller cat or like you say a dog of some type... The big ones were a bit different lol
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    Just got in the truck, heading to Vegas...wish me luck lol
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    Perhaps the most interesting thing for me was a tour we went on yesterday morning. The whole site is now owned by the Navajo Nation, they bought the land back for 9.3 billion dollars, so 150 years after losing their land they now own it, everyone who works there was Navajo, so our tour guide was a Navajo woman, as it was just me and my wife on the tour, we sat in the front of the truck for 2.5 hours and talked to this woman, every subject from history, religion, politics, nature, culture...it was fascinating, there are people still living in the valley with no electricity or running water, liv
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    Pics in the museum and John Waynes cabin
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    Yesterday was really interesting.. we stayed in a hotel that is right in the Navajo Indian reservation, it started as a trading post in the 1920s owned by a white couple called Goulding. Harry Goulding and his Wife recognised the area in Monument Valley needed outside investment, so the drive to Hollywood in the 1930s and approached film director John Ford, eventually John Ford agreed to come out and look at the area. The rest is history, with Ford directing loads of films shot in Monument VallEY, with John Wayne starring in many. Other moteable films like Thelma and Louise, Back to the Future
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    It was an eerie feeling walking in there mate, like your being watched, I know its in your head, but there is a good chance I was lol
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