***Kim's Post backpacking thoughts*** Well they always say home is were the heart is and i must say its true. Being back is good and bad. Must admit that i didn't realise how much i'd missed everyone and it was so good to see everyone again. The suprise went brilliantly, I nearly gave my mum a heart attack, made my sister bawl her eyes out and well, as for Megs, I think she thought i was a spirit! She wouldn't talk to me for ages and kept asking my mum what i was doing there! But I am missing the whole [View Full Entry]

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Heading back downtown after our trip past the Statue of Liberty we decided time was getting on and we should head towards the Empire State Building where we were to meet Annie and Paul. On the way I was starting to feel a bit grouchy which usually means I am hungry (poor old Kim had got used to my hungry grouchy turns by now). We stopped at a vendor and decided to try one of the Giant pretzels on the way to keep me going!! We finally reached the Empire State worried that we would be late and that we would [View Full Entry]

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Alright by now most of you realise that we came home early!! We cam back for a few reasons; 1. To surprise everyone 2. Save money 3. To be back in time for the world cup :-P!! 4. I was getting annoyed with Kim’s relentless smoking and drinking binges!! :-P While we were away our plan to come home early was pretty hard to keep from everyone so we had to slow down our blog entries and tell a few white lies so people thought we were in different locations than we really were! Writing a New York blog before coming [View Full Entry]

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Boston, well what can we say. Arrived in Boston with a strange sense of home, mainly due to the fact that it was pissing it down with rain. in fact there had been floods in the state due to the weather over the previous days. Arrived at the hostel to find it being renovated, in fact the hostel wasn’t even open, we didn’t realise that there was now a different hostel a few doors down that was open instead. When we got there we also found it being renovated but at least it was open. There wasn't even a toaster, though [View Full Entry]

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Sorry for the huge Blog again, I know they are turning into essays but bare with me, don’t worry I’ve added lots of pictures too!!! After such as good time in Chicago we wanted to have a more relaxing (alcohol free) visit to Washington, a city more famous for its landmarks, monuments and museums than its nightlife which was probably a good thing as we were both feeling pretty worn down, its a hard life all this traveling ;-) We arrived before midday at the Hill top Hostel in Washington, feeling pretty tired we decided to just chill for the day [View Full Entry]

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We got to Chicago after a non-eventful train journey (thank God). We arrived at the hostel, a bit out of town but there's 24 hour metro so was great, and promptly got chucked out! Only for a couple of hours though, lock out hostels suck, but they do make you get out of bed even with the most serverest hangover (poor Trev!). We went into the city the next day, heading for the Library for free internet. Chicago is the city in the States we,ve been to so far that looks and feels like home. The architecture is very european and [View Full Entry]

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Just wanted to wish my most little bro a happy 1st birthday! wish I was there to celebrate it but will see you soon (though you probably wont remember who I am!). Happy birthday mate Love big big big bro Trev P.S. Just to prove your present has been to the Grand Canyon here is a pic of me holding it!! [View Full Entry]

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Im going to start this entry by giving the run down on the state of New Orleans so i don't have to mention it again. During the train ride into New Orleans we could see all the places made famous on TV like the still damaged superdome. From stepping in the station we could already see the damage, broken lockers, boarded up windows and signs still hanging off buildings. This is eight months later in practically the richest most powerful country in the world, but we hadn't seen anything yet. This was in the main city downtown area. On the way [View Full Entry]

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Getting to Austin was a royal pain in the arse and meant we had to take a 3 day train trip back to LA (again) then through into Texas. By now we are really getting fed up of the trains they are so damn slow and full of wierdo's (yes more of them)! As we have been spending such a long amount of time on the trains we have both been recently thinking alot about home and are starting to really get excited about being back next month, can't wait to have a proper cup 'o' tea and fish and chips! [View Full Entry]

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On 27th we left vegas with Gary and Nic in their huge rental SUV heading for Flagstaff and the Grand Canyon. The drive was fairly straightforward but held many suprises we did not expect. I was riding shotgun and giving directions from our pretty basic map. However looking closer at the map I realised that the road to flagstaff through Arizona took us directly past the Hoover Dam. I didn't realise that route 93 actualy also took us over the damn as it was passable to cars. On approaching the damn we decided to pull over ending up in a restricted [View Full Entry]

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