Blogs from LAX, Los Angeles, California, United States, North America - page 3

Average start to the day before hitting Route 66 again, bound for Barstow. We decided to follow the pre-1931 route which took us via Goffs. More small towns with the all too familiar sight of abandoned buildings and gas stations, long forgotten by the fast paced world of the I-40. We passed Cadiz, Amboy (site of a volcanic crater), Ludlow, Newberry Springs and Dagget before taking a side road that led to Calico Ghost Town. We spent a couple of hours wandering the streets of the small western town, founded back in 1881 and famed for its silver ore mines. We had lunch at the Old Miners Cafe, rode the Calico/Odessa Railroad and walked through Maggie's Mine, and thoroughly enjoyed our time there. Then back to Route 66 heading for Barstow. We checked into the Route ... read more

Well the final day is here, so very sad to be leaving this wonderful country and amazing state, all I can say is watch this space, if I don't manage to achieve living here before I die, my life will not have been complete... Dropped off and said goodbye to our lovely car, dragged our very heavy luggage onto the courtesy bus and off to LAX. Arrived quite early so entertained ourselves with sushi (me) McDonalds (him) and Haagen Daaz (both!!) and sat watching the aircraft arriving at the gates. Uneventful flight to Madrid if a little noisier than the outbound as we were flying Iberia, Spains national carrier and the Spanish generally find it hard to stay quiet for any period of time!! Arrived in Madrid and took the very turbulent flight back home to ... read more

Well we had nothing planned for our last day but there was one thing in the back of my mind we might do and that is shopping at the outlets in Citadel. After breaky I make sure they are open, and then arranged a hire car at the Budget place right across the road from our Hotel . It took about 30 minutes to get there and the freeways were flowing OK in our direction anyway. We went to most of the shops here but Luke was looking for an NBA jersey and they had none at all. What !!! I actually thought this place was of less quality than what we found in Denver and certainly not up to the Las Vegas standards we have seen before. We finally ask someone where we can get ... read more

We awoke to rain – heavy rain and all thoughts of walking the city for the day quickly disappeared. We were also thankful that we had done the bridge walk yesterday, which meant that we would not have to brave the elements high up above San Francisco Bay. We were reminded of Mark Twain’s observation that the coldest winter he had experienced was a San Francisco summer. Today was to be spilt up into two parts. First we would do an included highlights tour of the city by coach and then there was an option of a ferry ride to Sausalito on the opposite side of the Bay. Narelle and I had steered clear of the optional extras to this point as we like to take the time to do our own thing but we opted ... read more

Sat in the transit louge at LAX, not alot happening so i will blog again as and when we reach NZ Ta Ta for now... read more