New friends and farewell to Denver...

Although there's still so much more to tell you about Arc Thrift and their CSR partnerships I thought I might keep a post for another day when you get bored of me telling you about the desert roads of Arizona and Nevada, plus I have LOTS of packing to do.

Today, on our last day in Denver, we have been thrilled to make some new friends - Kristi, her gorgeous girls Kate and Megan, and their friend and nanny Erin. Kristi (who is a friend of Jo's back in Philadelphia) opened her home to us, cooked us a delicious meal and we all got to hang out together. Sadly her husband was away for business but we've promised to visit again so we can meet him too (not that we need any excuse to return to Denver, it's truly great here - a wining city, with winning people!).

Of course we couldn't miss a chance to call in at a nearby thrift store on the way home (open til 9pm), this time a Goodwill Thrift Store. Pretty bog standard as Goodwill stores go, but cheap prices so as always a few bargains were purchased. You will be hearing lots more about Goodwill once I get to San Francisco...with 2,700 thrift stores and 83 million donors nationwide, an annual retail turnover of over $3.5 billion and $22 million in corporate grants I am looking forward to understanding more about this thrift store giant next week.

Tomorrow we will be heading off on the long road trip to San Francisco (via Las Vegas). Tomorrow night we are staying at a cabin in the middle of Arizona so will have to take a break from posting until we get back to civilisation in a couple of days time.

Oh, forgot to tell you I'm now (accidently but completely legitimately, I think) the proud owner of a Wells Fargo bank account - so I might not return home after all...