Dave woke us up knocking on the door around 6AM in the morning, I helped him out with what he was looking for then went straight back to sleep. Again, this time around 10:15AM, Dave came knocking on the door and woke us up. But this time we had to get up and meet the rest of the group down at Alexis Park. Due to the fires around California the interstates closed so unlucky for us we had to stay an extra night in this amazing city. We quickly walked down to their hotel because we were in a bit of a rush. They had to check out of Alexis Park because Jon only booked that hotel for two nights. For the last night in Las Vegas Jon luckily found another hotel to stay in which ... read more

We woke up and excitedly had breakfast and packed the van. Today we are driving to everyone’s most awaited place, Las Vegas. As soon as we got there we headed to the retail outlet so we could all buy some nice clothes for our big night out tonight. We had no idea what was in store for us tonight, Jon had organised everything, all we had to do was give him $130 each and dress up. However since Ben was extremely short of money at this stage he wasn’t coming. The group spilt up to do some serious shopping around the retail outlet. Dave, Jon and I all needed a suit and we searched and searched this place for a decent fitting and good looking suit. Eventually Dave and Jon found a great store and both ... read more

Had quite a bad night’s sleep last night due to all the loud snoring going on in the bunk house. We all got ready and got in the van on our way to Bryce Canyon National Park. But it was quite a long drive so Jon took a shortcut through a dirt road called the ‘Grand Staircase’ which is closed when there has been rain anytime in the last week, lucky for us there hadn’t. The road was so bumpy and rough the van was all over the road but it was all great fun. Jon was getting a little excited and speeding this massive van up and down narrow roads and sharp turns. We first stopped at the Bryce Canyon Visitor’s Centre and had a quick look around. I bought a book about all the ... read more

We woke up at the crack of dawn and slowly got ready to head down to the lookout point where we were last night and watch the sunrise. It was freezing cold and some of the girls from our group brought their sleeping bags, fantastic idea, it was that cold. The sunrise was beautiful despite the freezing cold. It was an amazing sight seeing the sun rise over the Grand Canyon. Afterwards he drove down to a lodge to have breakfast, when we arrived there were deer hanging around outside the lodge eating grass. We took some close up photos and headed in for some food. We sat inside and ate a nice hot breakfast to keep us warm and awake. We finished our breakfast and left the lodge to go for a hike down into ... read more

We woke up quite late considering we were leaving in half an hour. We quickly packed our stuff and threw it into the trailer. We had a short drive and stopped off at a cliff which had ‘hole n’ the rock’ written in large letters with an arrow pointing to a small hole. Had no idea what it was actually referring to but we all took the typical cheesy tourist photos then got the van and continued driving on. Next we stopped at an amazing lookout point where we could see for miles and miles into the distance. We took some photos and relaxed for a while on the edge of a cliff overlooking an incredible rocky landscape. We returned to the van and ate lunch then continued on to our campsite. On the way we ... read more