So after my last entry i headed back to the hostel and chatted with some other travlers and paid my money for the volcano trip the following day, it was a pretty lazy evening as i had a veggie quissidilla from the cafe at the hostel and then watched CSI New York and Law and Order Special Victims unit and then went to bed at 11 and the fan was on in the dorm but all it did was make noise and was not much use to be honest and then the staff decided to play pool and the table is right outside the dorm i was in and i could keep hearing the clanking of the balls, i dug out my ear plugs and eventually fell asleep and i got up at 9.30am which was ... read more

So after updating my blogs yesterday i took a walk around Liberia and its official the is bugger all to do here and if you ever come here use as a tranist stop and keep heading somewhere else. I went back to the hotel to find out how much it would cost to go to the local volcano, 30 dollars and its like im strapped for cash need to get to Nica and have already spent too much here in Costa and in Panama. So i could not see anyone around the transinica ticket place and so i booked the bus from my hotle for tuesday and paid for another night. I walked around liberia for a while in the vain hope of seeing something and i even walked upto the barrio ( in daylight though), ... read more

So Erin made me a packed lunch and dropped me off at terminal 4 and we hugged and said our goodbyes and i went into the terminal. In the car i had started to get an icky stomach and i still have it now, so it was not comfortable having to wait an hour in line waiting to check in, it was a tuesday night and you wouldnt imagine it would be busy and it was not busy, its just American airlines happy staff were limited and not the most helpful and they gradually took there time to work through everyone, eventually i got through and the whole european liquids thing is not a thing in the states, i got through security and then needed to dash to the toliet because of my dodgey stomach, i ... read more

So after the turmoil and lack of sleep over the weekend i had a great sleep in a really comfortable bed and a great sleep and i did not get up till 10.30 am and i had toast and yogurt and took my malaria tablets again and remembered my multi-vitamin and asthma steroid in-haler and i finished off the weekends blog. Erin was feeling a bit better than she did yesterday and we headed off into LA, first stop was Redondo beach which merges with manhattan and samosa beach. We then headed for Hollywood and passed hollywood and vine which use to be a famous prostitute hangout and we then headed up into the hills and the Hollywood sign and the houses on the way up were small and nothing to shout about but are not ... read more

So after both me Kerri had an early night by hitting the sack at 11 last night and so we ended up getting up just after 10am and i have to say Kerri's blow up mattress is quite comfortable and i jumped on the computer and finished off yesterdays blog entry and uploaded some pics, Kerri was suppose to be working today but called in sick.....lol. After some faffing about we got out the apartment 15 mins quicker than yesterday......lol, first stop was the Golden Gate bridge and the rain was bucketing it down and if anything i thing it was worse than yesterday and Kerri blamed me and said id brought this crap weather with me from the UK, i insisted i hadn't and infact it had been hot and sunny in Phoenix. When we ... read more