SarahandRob

Day 135 - Yellowstone NP, WY - Butte, MT We woke up and headed to Mamouth Hot Springs in the north of the park. It was one of the nicest geo-thermal areas of the park. We carried on north through the park into Montana and headed for Chico Hot Springs. We paid $4 for our swim and they had two pools; one of which was really hot and another which was too hot! They also sold beer for $1 a can so some of us just floated around with a few beers which was nice! We then had a short 4 hour ride in the van before we got to Butte, a run-down old mining town. After setting up camp and having a slightly unsuccessful curry for dinner we headed into town. I can safely say ... read more

Day 120 - Las Vegas We were not meeting the tour until early evening so we used the last day in our hotel to gym, swim and wash! We also had sneaky burger from a burger joint we had been eying up on the strip for lunch which was yummy but the bread (as always) was a bit funky. We went to meet the group at 7 ish and we headed straight to dinner. On initial impressions the group all seemed really nice, with a good mix of Nationalities including Italians, Korean and Australians. The tour guide is friendly but also looks like a typical hardcore camper with full face of hair etc and he seemed a bit useless at organising things (my pet hate!). We had a nice dinner at an American style Italian restaurant ... read more

Day 107 - San Francisco - Yosemite NP We had a morning of sorting our lives out before leaving Pat and Robert's around midday. It was back to living out of our bags after a week and a half of luxury! We set off to try and find San Andreas Fault but we failed in our mission - the Tomtom did not live up to it's usual standards! We still had a nice drive around Los Altos Hills though so the time was not wasted. Once we had admitted defeat we set off on our way to Yosemite National Park. It was a long drive so we did not arrive until 7.00pm but the last hour of driving into the park really got the juices flowing, we went to bed very excited about the next ... read more

Day 94 - Townsville - Mission Beach (Magnetic Island) We caught an early ferry over to Magnetic Island from Townsville, a really pretty island just off the coast. When we arrived at the ferry terminal we hopped on a bus to one end of the island and from here we walked to some more secluded bay one of which was called Florence Bay and it was beautiful even with the dark clouds looming above. We had a little sit on a rock before heading back to catch the bus back and we were lucky to get to the shelter in time before it started tipping it down (it only rains on average on 45 days a year and we managed to be there on one of those days!). We decided to get the ferry back a ... read more

Day 79 - Byron Bay This is the day when we wrote our last blog and re-did all our photo's that had disappeared. The weather was absolutely foul with torrential rain all day so we were not exactly missing out. We did drive out to Mount Warning but we couldn't try and climb it as it is too unsafe in heavy rain. All in all it was a frustrating day stuck in a wet seaside town (we were starting to feel Australia is a rainy country!). Day 80 - Byron Bay - Southport (Gold Coast) Before we set off on our trip to Coolangatta on the Gold Coast we made a quick visit to Cape Byron Lighthouse before all the crowds. We made the short walk to the most Easterly point on mainland Australia and ... read more