The Calm before the Storm

We have really enjoyed our stay in Flagstaff. It has been great to have some home comforts after a month of motels and microwave meals. There are only so many different ways you can cook noodles and rice!! We have met some great people and managed to explore the town in case Andrea gets a chance to come training here next year without me. Hopefully if things go well she will do.

One of the main purposes of coming up here was to suss out quite a few of the training options available to runners. It has been really good, there are quite a few people around to point us in the right direction and so we have been to different trails and routes every day. Supposedly we haven’t even scratched the surface. There are even some good trails which open up in the summer which some adventurous runners can go on and reach peaks of 10000ft altitude. Not for the faint hearted (more for the light headed)! It really is a great town for cyclists, runners and walkers alike. We love it here!

So in less than a week we are back in UK. The volcano ash seems to have cleared and hopefully we’ll get home without any problems - we really don’t want to spend more time than we have to in Los Angeles airport!

We have one more day here in Flagstaff before heading to our final destination of Las Vegas for three days. Time to win all of our money back!

So is it red or black? What do you reckon??


Andrea has a plan to take little Cody with her. I'd keep an eye on her Alicia!!