Fiona's Quiet Life

On the first day,after meet­ing up in?the??car-park?of the Amer­i­suites hotel in Las Vagas?on what they called a warm up trek of 10 miles, ?i thought i would not be able to get back to the car park, a mix­ture of heat, dehyd­ra­tion and the fact that my time zone was 8 hours ahead so my body thought it was in the middle of the night, also though i am fit enough to walk many miles on flat ground or down­hill, i have trouble breath­ing?? on any kind of slope, per­haps it is the asthma which has just been dia­gnosed, my lung capa­city seems to be 300 or less? which is not good, any­way, the guide? filled? his won­der­ful hat with water and put it on my head.….…instant revival.….. and? it made it? back to the oth­ers. one other mem­ber of the trek was? worse than i was and opted out of the rest of the walk­ing, i offered to do the same in case i caused prob­lems for the rest of the group but they said i would man­age fine , and so i did. apart from being the last out on the last day des­pite Jill and i set­ting out an hour earlier than the rest? so that we could take it slowly.

then we went to a motel??on the fam­ous route 66 and had a lovely buf­fet meal and? a very com­fort­able room.

next morn­ing off to the trail head .….….…..oooh ! the state of the loos

and it is down hill all the way from there for 8 miles to the Havas­upai vil­lage and another two miles after that to our camp a lovely walk though i was tired by the time we reached the vil­lage and and enjoyed a sit down and? send­ing? post­cards by pony express to the grandchildren.…..i am the one in dark blue at the top of this pic.

enough for today i am tired as i have been shop­ping for shoes to go with my ball gown.……that’s another story

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does my bum look big in that.….….……i had learnt by then that trekking sev­eral miles in wet trousers was not the most com­fort­able way to go so i had my bikini bot­toms on as we were cross­ing waist deep, four rivers twice on that days trek, and some of us, more brave than i were going the ‘wet rout’ i.e. jump­ing off the tops of sev­eral water­falls, one of which was 18 feet down , i had thought i could do it so i stood at the top of a 16 foot one and .….chickened out. It turned out the dry rout was as bad because we had to carry the dry things of the ‘jump­ers’ up a ver­tical rock-face and across some very nar­row crumbly paths and through some prickly pears just up to knee height and ready to get you with their many prickles.

I shall be going on about this trek for days .….be WARNED.

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not home yet, tonight found me a volun­teer server of mulled wine for an hour before the Chan­nings school fire­works show, it was a great show ‚then Judith went on with her friends to Alex­an­der palace to watch the big dis­play there. we girls went shop­ping today for our ball gowns for the Hope Char­ity ball in a couple of weeks time, we are now all try­ing our dresses on..getting tired.

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WOW !!

I am back .it was great.…..i am back in London.…there will be more soon but mean while i am sleepy, hungry and jet lagged

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