When we left Big Bear LAke everything was sort of thrown into the back of Chuck - I'm sure that we will develop a better packing system as we go, but having a car is making life really easy so far... Gill has been doing most of the driving so far - she loves driving the 4x4 however I took the first leg from Big Bear to Death Valley. The mountains eventaully dropped away and after driving through several very strange small towns, including a stop of at a recreated 'ghost town', we entered Death Valley National Park. I wasn't expecting [View Full Entry]

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Well, we've started travelling - up at 4am (although Mum and I managed to get up at 3am by mistake!!) for the 6.30 flight to Heathrow. Both of our first flights landed early and we cleared customs and immigration at LAX in record time. (Around half an hour - unheard of on any of my previous US flights). We had an overnight site at the airport - the thought of driving after travelling for the best part of 24 hours was not particularly appealing. We collected the SUV - now affectionally known as Chuck the Truck, and tried to leave Los [View Full Entry]

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