It's Fiji time!! During our three and a half weeks in Fiji this was a saying which we came to use on a daily basis. Life in Fiji runs on Fiji time! Things happen when they happen, no rush, no worries! Our flight from Los Angeles to Nadi, Fiji took around 10½ hours and due to the international time zones we lost a day flying. We left Los Angeles on Thursday 10 September and arrived in Fiji on Saturday 12 September so we had no 11 September this year! Our plan for Fiji was to spend a few nights on the [View Full Entry]

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Climbing aboard the Greyhound bus in San Diego we settled into our seat pleased in the knowledge that this would be our last Greyhound bus journey and happy that the ride from San Diego to Los Angeles would only take 3 hours. We had spent many hours on the Greyhound buses traveling from place to place and we have to say that all in all the experience was not at all as bad as we had been led to believe. We arrived back in Los Angeles on Sunday 30 August with just over a week before our flight to Fiji. As [View Full Entry]

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We left San Francisco on Saturday 15 August and travelled to San Diego via the Greyhound bus. The journey took 11 hours in total and it was an overnight ride so we slept for most of it and arrived in San Diego at 10.00am the following day. We had booked into a hostel called Lucky D's Hostel which was only a short walk from the Greyhound station and we chose it as it was cheaper than USA Hostels (a well known chain of hostels and where we stayed in San Francisco). It also had free waffles and cereal for breakfast every [View Full Entry]

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Whilst in San Francisco we knew we had to go over the Golden Gate bridge so we figured the best way to do this would be to hire bikes for the day. We hired bicycles from 'Blazing Saddles' and we now know why they are called that! After a day of riding, you will have a 'blazing saddle!...... We got up nice and early and headed down to Fisherman's Wharf where the bike hire company is located. We collected our bikes at around 9am and headed off towards Golden Gate Bridge. The weather was perfect, cool first thing and then lovely [View Full Entry]

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As soon as we arrived in San Francisco on the Greyhound bus we knew we were going to like it in this city... The bus ride from Las Vegas to San Francisco took 15 ½ hours in total and we were extremely tired from the long journey but very excited to be in San Francisco. Las Vegas was fun but after just over 3 ½ weeks it was certainly time to move on from there! If we had stayed there much longer, Matt may have bankrupted us! San Francisco has a very relaxed vibe about it. San Francisco is just San [View Full Entry]

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Well, after an emotional farewell, we found ourselves on the plane headed for Los Angeles on Monday 15 June 2009. We were met with amazing surprises at the airport - not only Dianna's nephew George dressed as Batman and her Brother in Law dressed as Superman but also Matt's best friend Dean had managed to get an upgrade for us through his Dad. We flew 'World Traveller' which was brilliant! Big seats, foot rests, TV's on the back of the seats, amazing food and complimentary drinks throughout the flight. We definitely did not feel like we were backpacking on a budget!! [View Full Entry]

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From Los Angeles, we booked tickets via the internet for the Greyhound bus and headed to Las Vegas on 20 June. We also pre-booked a couple of nights in a Travelodge in Las Vegas (which if you can believe it worked out cheaper than a hostel). The bus ride was 6 hours - with a 30 minute stopover in Barstow. We arrived in Las Vegas around 4pm and were met with a wall of heat! We grabbed our backpacks and headed for the nearest bus stop. It took a while (plus a lot of walking and moaning from Dianna!) to find [View Full Entry]

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Morning /Afternoon/Evening all This is just a quick blog to let all know that we are both well and still going strong (after one whole week!!!!) :-) At the moment the laptop is in the repair shop hence the lack of blogs thus far but as soon as its back i will update with what we have done/seen so far Quick summary, we got to LA last week (15th June) and stayed there for 5 days and we have since moved on to Las Vegas which is CRAZY good, me loving my fruit machines as i do i feel like i [View Full Entry]

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Well, this is the first entry from our round the world tour and this one comes from sunny England (Harefield) Unbeknown to Dianna and I a surprise party had VERY sneakily been arranged for the Saturday night (6 June) by Dianna's sister Claire and others and everyone involved did a spot on job of keeping it quiet as we did not have a clue about it until we got there. There was SO many times that people could have let the cat out of the bag but not one person let on and it was definitely a massive surprise! I can [View Full Entry]

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