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Today’s Wild West train traveller

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Buffalo Bill would, of course, have ridden the Plains on his steed, but today’s Wild West train traveller would take a three-day train journey and now for the price of two.

Our friends at Canyon Spirit have put together a Black Friday promotion for a savings of up to 18%/£300pp for Red Rocks and Wild West fans.

On the new Rockies to the Red Rocks route from Salt Lake to Denver (or vice versa) in the US from April.

The rail deal

The Great Outdoors: From indoors

Where you’ll get to soak up the plunging-rugged canyons, spectacular red-rock formations and the winding Colorado River from eye level.

Which will bookend that Papillon Helicopter tour you took back in the day above the Hoover Dam and the Grand Canyon from Las Vegas.

You’ll overnight in Glenwood Springs (the clue is in the name), Colorado and Moab, Utah.

The additional day of train travel will traverse the mountain passes of eastern Utah and the open vistas of the Great Basin.

While connecting to the urban hub of Salt Lake City.

Hosts with the most

Framing your journey: Zip through the Wild West

And all with your hosts talking you through the destinations through which you pass.

While feasting on the best local fare and beer, wines, and spirits.

And maybe a concert: OneRepublic at Red Rocks

The new three-day Rockies to the Red Rocks Extension journey will take off on April 10.

It will travel weekly with one westbound departure from Denver and one eastbound departure from Salt Lake City.

The three-day rail journey, including overnight hotel accommodation in Glenwood Springs and Moab.

Costs from £1,331 pp (was £1,631 pp – saving 18%/£300 pp) with the Black Friday promotion.

The Rocky Mountain high

Bandanaman: And the Bandanettes In Denver

And if all this looks familiar it’s probably because it’s the new name.

For the luxury train that welcomes travellers to experience the American Southwest by rail.

And which has been operating under the Rocky Mountaineer brand since 2021.

Countries

Turtles’ backs are protected but ours are not

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And because turtles‘ backs are protected but ours are not…

Then we are at the mercy of the sun.

And the damage it can do to us when we’re out swimming after them.

Swimwear: And a shell

And when we get out of the sea and back onto our Cool Runnings catamaran off Barbados.

It’s something non-locals all know to their cost.

I’ll scratch my back

Sore point: So do it yourself

Now if you’re travelling by yourself.

Or are too shy to ask the other members of your party to apply it, then you’re on your own.

And when the rum is available at the free bar, the food is good and the company even better, then you can forget yourself.

Of course the easy answer and the one that will be dished out to you when you get home is DON’T!

And your loved ones are right.

It would help, of course, if we had swivel heads.

Like Clunk from Wacky Races and Stop The Pigeon.

Lifesavers

Give it stick: The spatula

But we have the next best thing…

The back lotion applicator which is the subject of our latest Holidos and Dont’s offering today.

Now, isn’t it always the case that we only find out about these lifesavers when we get home.

Like my old boss Donald who told me this, on my return from a Moroccan trip half the man I was before I left.

I should have taken Imodium with me.

And so with my back tingling, sore to the touch, and redder than a ripe tomato I fell upon the back lotion applicator online.

Now I’ll check out my pharmacies on my daily constitutional.

In the hope of unearthing a self-back applier.

And I am even ready to go further afield than North Berwick and into the Big Smoke. of Edinburgh if required.

And wriggle in my train seat (and that’s not just at the cost of the return ticket) if I can find what I want in town.

Feeling drowsy?

Unmasked: Covid and tanlines

I got back from Barbados, and its Celtic Festival negotiated a long-haul overnight flight in a tight seat and a domestic connection.

Of course it didn’t help either that I was right back into work, in my seat in front of my terminal.

I have since discovered that drowsiness is a side-effect of sunburn/sunstroke.

Now here was me thinking it was lack of sleep from my travels…

And the lack of excitement in the stories I was editing.

Super spatula

Food for thought: Cool Runnings

Now until I do get the magic applicator then I’ll make do with what is around the house.

And having already got a lashing for putting a wet towel in the laundry basket I’ve gone scouring in the kitchen cupboards… a foreign land to me.

I only found a spatula (no, me neither).

I must have picked up at a travel event.. from the good people who represent Salt Lake City.

And all of this because turtles’ backs are protected but ours are not.