We leave the West Coast with saddness, as this has been such an eclectic trip, Desert, Forest, Canyons and Coast Line, we have seen it all and more! We now travel to LAX to hand back our car and catch a flight to NY, we drop the car at 6.00pm and wait for our Plane to depart at 9.25pm, not looking forward to the flight, we are tired, we hope to get some sleep on the plane. Weather, Cool on the coast warm in LA!... read more

No early start today, as it's not too long a drive for us today and we head down the coast to Monterey. Once we hit the coast line the scenery is amazing! We arrive at Monterey and it reminds me of a little seaside village were one would go to retire, is just beautiful, we visit the Aquarium, very nice & interesting, the heavens decide to open up and we have around a 30 minute downpour, we don't care because this is a lovely town. We head to our Motel and again Steve you have done well with our accommodation and it's lovely. We have a relax and head to the beach for some sunset photos and its beautiful here on the coast. We head back to town for some dinner at this lovely restaurant over ... read more

Up early, our next stop is San Francisco, as we travel through the winding mountains and the sun glistening through the trees, we see more waterfalls and are sad to leave this beautiful Park! As we travel into San Francisco I cannot believe all the buildings and there stunning architecture, they have a quaint appeal about them. The weather is like an autumn day back home in Melbourne, Victoria as we arrive at our Motel, the room is lovely and after checking in we decide to do some sightseeing. We go for a leisurely stroll down to the Marina and after 30 minutes we arrive at the Marina promenade, the atmosphere is great and there are people everywhere..... street performers, cable cars running up and down, double decker tourist buses, its fantastic. We decide to get ... read more

Well, that was the best sleep we've had for a while, we have a lovely home cooked breakfast and this this motel is great value for the money, for 1 nights stay with dinner and breakfast $160.00, you can't do better than that! We head out now to Yosemite National Park and stop off at Bodie to see the famous Bodie Ghost Town it's another dusty ride ahead as we head down the dusty winding road, it reminds me a little of Ballarat Gold fields and to imagine that this was once a town, with a school, bank, library, saloon and now nothing, just empty shacks of where people inhabited. When you look into the school rooms you can see where books still lay and a world globe is faded with age, but you can still ... read more

Friday We wake up to our 2nd day in Vegas, stroll down stairs and have some breakfast, go back up to our room and relax before our Limo arrives to take us to the airport for our Helicopter ride over Hoover Dam and fly over the West Side of the Grand Canyon! Another amazing site as we fly over the Hoover Dam and the West Side of the Grand Canyon, again the beauty of this Canyon is truly amazing! After our ride we head off to do some retail shopping and there's not much to brag about. We head back to our room and see a storm brewing in the distance and once back in our room we can see lighting from our window and Steve gets his camera set up and is snapping madly, he ... read more