Jase and Shas US Adventure

Day 25 - Day by the Del Pool, Distance travelled - less than a mile up the beach and back! It was a really quiet day today and our last day in San Diego before heading back to LA in the morning, so nothing at all to really interest or excite anyone over your morning coffee, rice crispies, baby feeding or dog walking. The hotel is suddenly very quiet even with the latest batch of conferences underway and even the skies seem quieter with only a few flights in and out throughout the day, maybe we just arrived in the middle of a massive naval exercise last week. We spent our last day lazing by the pool and I joined my new drinking buddy from North Cheam to watch the QPR vs West Ham game in ... read more

Day 23 - San Diego Seaworld and party on the beach, Distance Travelled - 24 miles Time for Merlin to be awoken from the vast hotel carpark, roof down and a quick blast along the coast 12 miles to Seaworld San Diego. We parked up and once again upgraded our California City Passes to front of the line access. Despite being a Saturday, the park was reasonably quiet and we covered quite a bit. The Atlantis ride was very impressive including both water ride and rollercoaster in one, but couldn't tempt Shassy to take her feet off the ground. All the usual exhibits were there that you'd expect including Dolphin and Sealion interaction, ray feeding, sea otters etc. We also spent a lot of time in the wild artic experience watching the beautiful white Beluga whales ... read more

Day 21 - Chillin by the pool at 'The Del', Distance travelled - 200 yards from the room to the sunbeds to the bar and back! So let the chilling out begin, no driving, no sightseeing, no campsites, no weird goat walking, no super heroes just 6 days doing naff all by the seaside. After our usual lazy breakfast of coffe and pastries from Starbucks, Shas headed straight for her sunbed and I went for a short walk around the grounds to see the hotels collection of birds of prey who were all sitting out on their perches on the lawn. Although they were not quite as impressive as Kayla the eagle from Selhurst Park, they did have a particularly evil looking Egyptian Vulture! They don't let these birds fly around the hotel, probably for fear ... read more

Day 19 - Los Angeles tours on Starline Buses, distance travelled - lots, but someone else driving! Today was an early start in order to make the most of our last full day in Los Angeles. The plan was to cover as much of L.A. as possible using our 2 day hopper passes on the Starline open top buses before we left for San Diego tomorrow afternoon. Once again we had pre purchased the tickets from the UK, and more by luck than judgement, the starting point for the tours and head office for Starline buses was just around the corner from our hotel outside the Chinese Theatre. Vouchers were exchanged for tickets and we ducked and dived past photo opportunities with Captain America, Spiderman, Pirates from the Caribean and the Hulk to jump on to ... read more

Short(ish) blog today as I guess a blow by blow guide to each Disney ride would bore your pants off. As it was Sunday and we were planning to stay late at the park with Mickey and Minnie, we had a lie in, in the first proper bed for two weeks. Felt very strange not waking up to the sound of other campers banging and crashing around the site or the sound of waves crashing on the beach or wind in the trees! Or birds on the roof! I did however open the curtains to find some new wildlife clinging to the outside of our 20th floor window...a little long eared bat staring back at me, trying to shelter from the baking hot sun. After our first decent breakfast for two weeks we summoned the Mustang ... read more