Another night, another train. Zoe and I are starting to get fairly acquainted with platforms, train numbers and oh…the staring. We left Jaisalmer close to midnight and had a pretty short journey to Jodhpur. We got in at the crack of dawn (literally) and stood about for an hour or so waiting for our connection. All aboard again, we discovered we had an AC2 compartment of four berths to ourselves. This helped us get some more sleep and make the time pass on the way to Ahmedabad, our next destination. The trip was largely uneventful – cards, cards, nap, mouse (our feet stayed up for a while), arrival. After rolling in past Ghandi’s ashram at Sabarmati, the first thing we noticed about Ahmedabad (or at least the train station) was the stench of urine – one ... read more

Well we can safely cross off catching a bus in India from our list and look forward to not doing it for some time. Our 6 hour bus ride from Udaipur to Jodhpur, turned into just under 8 hours and was the most bumpy bus ride I think I’ve ever had. Brett had an egg on his head from where he bumped it on the roof and I had a sore neck from all of the jolting around. For a main road it was pretty shitty….I was even wishing that I was back on a Greyhound bus skidding along a snowy road somewhere in the US….well maybe not. So Jodhpur, our accommodation was lovely, with views of the city and the fort, we still weren’t feeling the best, so we had an early dinner and early ... read more

Our quote of the day and possibly the week is “so lets fight about it”. This is when we realise that we are starting an irrelevant argument with the other person. I’m trying to think of a new way to start off my blog entries, other than “So we then…” but it’s not been too successful and after not getting that much sleep last night, I can’t think of anything better to say, so tough….Anyway as Brett will tell you and I’ll concur with him, I get irritable and not very nice to be around when I haven’t had my 10 hours of sleep at night. So we spent last night on a bus from L.A. to San Francisco, waking up in the middle of the trip to see the bus driver hooning it while she ... read more

So we collected our car at Las Vegas airport and started driving out to the Grand Canyon – it took us about four and a half hours to get there. We drove past Hoover Dam, which Brett and I think is famous for some reason – possibly it’s the architecture of the dam?!?!? Then we drove into the Grand Canyon National Park, free entry because of National Park Day, or something – it saved us $25, so we were happy. Then we found our accommodation – which was on the rim of the South Canyon! We dumped our stuff and headed out to explore the Grand Canyon. The Grand Canyon has two visitor points, the South Rim, where we were staying and the North Rim, which was about 10 miles away from us as the crow ... read more

Unloading from the ferry, we wound our way along the jagged cliffs of North/West Vancouver, drove over the bridge (the name escapes me) that splits Stanley Park and landed at Central Station. A short skytrain ride later and we were in the city – thankfully we only had to lug our backpacks four blocks (they’re not getting any lighter). Checked in, we got in the lift which stopped half way up and into the lift walked our mate Richard – small world. We went for a stroll soon after and then quickly found a pub for a refreshing ale and poutine snack. Richard had some inside knowledge of a good place for dinner and we made our way down to Gastown (past the ‘memorable’ steam clock) to the 6 Acres. A good feed later washed down ... read more