****Sorry for the delay in updating but thank you for all your requests that we pull our finger out and hurry up**** Well what can I say about Yosemite? It is huge and beautiful and restored my faith in California. I think also the fact I am feeling better now has helped, but you can’t help but love this place. Every few hundred yards you can stop and take loads of amazing shots, so a digital camera is a must! Although the park itself is around 36 miles wide it can take hours to drive through because you keep stopping to [View Full Entry]

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Flagstaff or should I say Flue staff Firstly two notes for this blog 1) it will be a lot shorter than most (yippee I hear you cry) for reasons that will become apparent very soon and 2) it may be full of negative ranting on my part as I try to get over my current mood, so please take most of the following with a pinch of salt - some things just need to be said…… Anyway as we left Vegas and headed for the Hoover Dam, which didn’t take any time at all really, Nath, having started with a cough [View Full Entry]

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Due to popular demand we figured we should at least let you see our rock and roll life style in Vegas The drive to Vegas was deserty (bet your learning so much reading this blog aren’t you!) and wow was it hot, we only stopped briefly for gas and food but boy was I glad to get back in the car with the air con. I was really hoping to get excited on arriving in Vegas as so far I hadn’t been that impressed with what I had seen of California, so I was pleased to feel a small butterfly as [View Full Entry]

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What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas :) [View Full Entry]

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Now I should probably explain, way back at the beginning of our travel when we were in the Washington DC hostel I bumped into Rayleen in the bathroom one morning. I was getting ready to go out after a shower and Rayleen was at the sinks and had been one of the first people to actually make a conversation with me (maybe I’m not giving off the right signal?? Or maybe I’m just a bit too weird for people to take the chance) anyway we got chatting with the usual pleasantries and I mentioned about our trip and where we [View Full Entry]

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The drive down to Santa Barbara was a better one being that the sun finally started to come out and I realised why we have air con in the car!! Getting to the hostel was great, my first glimpse of what I had always thought of as "California" with palm trees and a proper beach!! The hostel was only 2 blocks away so on arriving we went for a walk around the area. The beach was full of birds, the usual gulls and loads of huge pelican's! The beach itself wasn't the cleanest but was still the nicest one we'd seen [View Full Entry]

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The morning we left San Fran we went to the airport to collect our car (which we booked very last min thanks to the crappy internet connection at the hostel). We had booked the cheapest and smallest car, which by British standards is probably a medium sized car, but on arriving at the car port there were no economy cars left, so we had to choose something else!!!! Yippee we got a bigger and nicer car (I think) a bright blue Chrysler cruiser (my choice), probably doesn’t do good mileage and yes looks like a hearse from behind but its [View Full Entry]

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Well we arrived in Emmeryville on time, surprisingly, and got on our transfer coach to San Francisco with a very unfriendly coach driver who told us abruptly we needed to get off at Market Street as this was closest to our hostel. However due to the time zones our physic buttons had been turned off and we didn't realise he was just agreeing that this was the best place to get to to find our hostel, not that it meant he was dropping us off there!! luckily a lot of other people on the coach thought this too and kicked up [View Full Entry]

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Well we didn’t arrive late evening we actually arrived in Salt Lake City at 3am!!! It wasn’t the best train ride I must say. After leaving the observation lounge to avoid another round of "kumbya my lord" from the hippie and her new found “earth children” we went back to our seat and decided with only a few more hours to go we would watch a movie. Two and a half hours later we were now sat out in the middle of nowhere at midnight waiting for engineers to come and fix the lights that were presently on red due to [View Full Entry]

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Well let me think where did we leave off? Erm I think we were on the train to Denver. Well that was brilliant (apparently this term gives us away as English people, so now we are sticking with awesome!) we had our own little and I mean little cabin, that involves two seats facing each other then about 30 cm before a sliding door separating us from the corridor. The two chairs slid to meet each other to make one bed and above our heads was a let down bunk - brilliant I mean awesome! The view out of the [View Full Entry]

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