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What a surprise Boston has been, such a beautiful city. With all the history and the fact that it was originally based on London we have felt like we are back home already..well almost. We arrived to sunshine that was set to stay for the whole 4 days we were here, couple that with a bank holiday for Columbus day and we were feeling really good. Our hotel was right out of the city but when we arrived we purchased a 7 day ticket for the T which is the public transport here and for $15 we both thought it was very good value. It was a little stressful on the underground with our backpacks but we managed to get to our lodgings in one piece. Originally they had not had an ensuite room available but ... read more

Even with the sat nav that Rick and Sharon gave us we still couldn’t find their house so fortunately Sharon came to meet us to take us back. You remember I said that they are a whirlwind, well our return was no different. Within 20 minutes of being in the house Sharon was whisking us off to one of the movie sets in town. We’ve never been given the opportunity to do this so we were not sure what to expect. It was to the set of the new Henry Winkler (the fonz) movie, so we headed to the location on the opposite side of the water. What we didn’t know was that it was not indoors the shoot was taking place in a house in a residential area. We arrived and were a bit early ... read more

Our flight to Seattle was faultless and we were both really looking forward to meeting up with Rick and Sharon again. As we collected our baggage we were pounced upon by both of them, Sharon quickly handed Tim a large can of English ale. We were introduced to Ernie one of Sharons old friends from NZ and swiflty the whirlwind that is Rick and Sharon took hold. Firstly Sharon had very kindly arranged a hire car for us at no cost other than the tax and to insure her to drive it back to Vancouver. As Tim sorted out the finer details of the rental I got the chance to catch up with Rick on his new film and life since we last saw them 5 months ago in NZ. Then Tim went off with the ... read more

Lake Tahoe sits on the border of California and Nevada, we arrived via the Nevada border. Casinos line the main highway in and the scenes were very pretty of the beginning of the lake. The hotel we were hoping for was actually in California so we passed over the cross roads that marks the two borders. We always like finding such places where it says welcome to California on one side and you are leaving Nevada on the other, yes I know, sad! The hotel we chose was supposed to be near the lake front and although it took us a while to find it eventually we got there. We were surprised to be offered an even better rate than our discount coupon and the room had a spa bath. Result! Our room opened out onto ... read more

We quite happily left dodgy Fresno behind and began our journey to Yosemite, somehow we got our timings wrong and we arrived much earlier than we had expected to do. We arrived into the small town of Oakhurst and decided to stop for breakfast as we knew it would be a long day. The breakfast in America are rather strange and we have still yet to understand how you can out pancakes, maple syrup, eggs amd bacon on the same plate. We avoided that combination but the french toast came with icing sugar, just way too weird!! Stopping off at the tourist information centre was the best decision we made as the guy there gave us some really good advice for the places to stop at. Armed with that and our free maps we set off ... read more