Back in the USA

It took longer than I expected but I have arrived in the mountains - you know the Rocky ones. My flight to Denver from Miami was overbooked so American Airlines offered any passengers willing to take a later flight, a free night and meals at the Sofitel Miami and a $500 travel voucher. I thought that sounded a decent deal so here I am a day late!

I have a very shiny Hyundai SantaFe, about the colour of Evonne (my ruby subaru back home) and we are going to spend the next 3 weeks in an intimate relationship. As a random piece of language trivia, in American English 'Hyundai' is pronounced without the 'y'.

My first sightseeing mission in the mountains was Garden of the Gods. This is a park in Colorado Springs with sharp, pointy, red rocks looming out of the ground. It's a small park but very pretty with the taller, slightly snow-capped mountain range as a scenic backdrop. A rock-climbers paradise.