Day 15 - The Journey Home

'Someone' had the great idea of getting up at 5:30am on our last day so that we could hike up to Castle Rock for sunrise. Although this was pleasant, the easy stroll that was in our minds was soon wiped out as we had to climb up near vertical slopes to get to the flat peak. Once up it was pretty nice and I'm sure the pictures won't do it justice.

After a quick(er than expected) descent, we grabbed a quick breakfast and then started the put-off-as-soon-as-we-can chore of clearing out the car and packing our stuff for the journey home.


After a couple of bin liners of trash the car looked almost acceptable for a rental car, and packing our cases could have been done more eloquently with a shovel if we're honest.


Soon we were on our way for the final leg of the journey, and made it to the airport with just one wrong turn.


There were of course delays to our plane, there was some 'incorrect luggage' (read: bomb) in the hold which had to be removed, and then we hopped over to Chicago.


There were delays there too unfortunately, this time to replace a seatbelt. That sounds like a made-up excuse if ever I've heard one.

The flight back was nowhere near as good as the flight over with the atypical legroom provided making us wanting to saw our legs off at the knees after about 2 hours.


With our Vegas heads still on we played video poker on the plane and soon found a bug that allowed us to rack up the chips like there was no tomorrow, why don't Atari make the systems in the casinos too, dammit!


Once in London we somehow managed to find the car and Martin did the tough drive back to Birmingham, it was a short journey in comparison to some of the epics that we've done over the last few weeks but was one of the toughest due to sheer exhaustion and jetlag.


And that's it I'm afraid, the journey is over and back to work tomorrow (boo!).


Enjoy!


Mark & Martin
 
Achievement: Survived America