Vegas is the only city on this trip, that as I got closer, I actually got goose bumps. The place is buzzing with atmosphere and it’s hard not to get caught up with it as you enter Las Vegas Boulevard. The whole place is such an assault on the senses, particularly visual, that it’s hard to know where to look. There’s a Pyramid, an Eiffel Tower, World famous Bellagio fountains and huge screens at each of the hotels displaying the shows that are hosted there. After dumping the car I set about trying to take in some of the sights. With [View Full Entry]

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I arrived at about 10am on the Friday morning in Phoenix expecting my friend Tom to be waiting there open armed, teary eyed, sayin how good it was to see me again after he’d been away from the UK for the best part of 4 months. When I arrived I was somewhat deflated to find out that there were no tears, no open arms, in fact, there was no Tom. The lazy bugger had been out on the lash the night before and not only had he got up late, he was also still too drunk to drive so he had [View Full Entry]

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I arrived in San Diego during the early hours of the morning after setting off at stupid o’clock from LA. This I put down to Liam and his alarm clock which he set for 5:30 in the morning and then left in his locker. Next to my head. I was due to set off early anyway so I thought ‘why not just get up’. So I arrived in San Diego, bleary eyed and disorientated and decided that after dropping off the hire car, it would be a great idea to walk from my hostel to Mission Beach. This was easily the [View Full Entry]

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I had stopped over in Santa Barbara for the evening after travelling down Pacific Highway 1 but was so shattered from all the driving that I didn’t even venture out of my motel. I couldn’t tell you what the place was like but it’s supposed to be very nice…. From there I was to drive on to LA. My first port of call though was Malibu. I had donned my mankini in hope of being able to replicate those infamous scenes from Baywatch but alas, it was not meant to be. I couldn’t even get on the beach at Malibu but [View Full Entry]

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I had just picked up the hire car at 5:30 am and was confused by pretty much everything. The steering wheel was on the worng side, every road had waaay too many lanes of traffic each side and I wasn’t entirely sure of the highway code in California. Within about 5 minutes I was to learn one very helpful caveat of information. You are allowed to turn right on a red light. Within another 5 minutes I was to learn my second lesson. Provided you drive like a psychopath within the speed limit, you can get away with pretty much anything, [View Full Entry]

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And so I was to leave Fort Collins and the girls, bound for the sunny shores of San Francisco. I had always wanted to go to San Francisco since I was a child simply and solely to see the Golden Gate Bridge. For me it represented a benchmark, an achievement I thought I would never reach on account of me having an inherent fear of flying as many of you know. As a side note you’ll be pleased to know that finally, after spending God knows how many hours on a plane during this trip, I am not too bothered at [View Full Entry]

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FINALLY! I hear you all cry. Yes it has been a while since the last entry. Sorry for the delay but i've either been too busy or not had access to the internet. Apologies. So then, on to Colorado. It was here that i was to meet up with some chums i had met on my previous trip. The names of the poor unfortunates are Reilly and Marissa and for those of you who followed the previous trip you should be up to speed on who they are. The girls had promised me that if i was going to miss Colorado [View Full Entry]

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Hello once again my avid readers. Hope you like the entries and my writing doesn't bore you to death. Right, enough of the foreplay, lets get stuck in. I never thought in my entire life i would once again end up on the shores of North America. As most of you know I. HATE. FLYING. But i figured i had to grow a pair and see the places i'd been bangin on about since i was 17. The flight wasn't that bad actually. The only problem was because i'm tight fisted and wanted the cheapest fare EVER I had to initially [View Full Entry]

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Where was I? Ah yes, 7am in the morning if I remember correctly after 3 hours sleep and a skinful of ale. I was drunk, dehydrated and unbelievably tired as I set off for Munich. I had no real accommodation per say, only the promise of some floor space in my American friends room, which I had no idea how to get to or in fact where it was. Up until this point I had already had accommodation booked before I set off to a new venue and never had I needed it more than now. I was completely shattered and [View Full Entry]

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Sorry about the title, couldn’t help it. It had been some time since I had stopped in a city where I wasn’t staying with someone I knew. In Budapest I had been fortunate to be stopping in the same accommodation as my fantastic four and in Prague I had been stopping in the same hostel as Karina. In Vienna, I was to be stopping alone, or so I thought. An unusual twist of fate i.e. Imran had got shedded the night before he was due to leave Prague and missed his train the previous day, meant that I was to have [View Full Entry]

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