BY JUSTINO I got home 2 weeks ago today, but still have not adjusted to day to day life off the road. After 27 flights (San Diego to Houston to DC to Newark to San Francisco to Newark to London to Newark to Beijing to Hong Kong to Guangshou to Saigon to Hoi An to Saigon to Singapore to Sydney to Wellington to Aukland to Wellington to Melbourne to Singapore to Kuala Lumpur to Phuket to Kuala Lumpur to Bangkok to Kuala Lumpur to Beijing to Newark to San Diego) totaling 46,631 miles, and thousands more driving across Australia and New [View Full Entry]

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The best 2 days yet in San Diego, we caught the bus the Ocean Beach. It's about a 40 minute bus ride from the hostel where you encounter some more weird people, what is it with weird people on buses in this country! We got to the beach and found a nice patch. Settled down and chilled and before long all I could hear was Nicole snoring her little head off, northern birds!!!! After an hour or so me and Jake hit the sea, the waves were awesome, so powerful and we did plenty of body surfing before realising that it [View Full Entry]

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We have just spent three days having lazy and a relaxing time in San Diego without the car and back to the joys of public transport. I hate buses. We arrived in the afternoon and settled into our hostel by the beach. It was lucky we packed the car up the previously night as the whole return car process was very quick. The only problem was we didn’t pack our bags very well, we had trouble carrying them as we hadn’t done so for five weeks. But once we got settled in San Diego we went exploring our local area of [View Full Entry]

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SÅ VAR DET ENDELIG KUN TO UKER IGJEN TIL JEG FORLATER BERGEN BY OG REISER TIL MYE VARMERE STRØK... FOR Å STUDERE I SAN DIEGO=)=) GLEDER MEG VILT TIL NYE OPPLEVELSER, NYE STEDER, NYE VENNER OG NYE MULIGHETER=) EIVIND REISTE ALLEREDE I DAG, SÅ BLIR KJEKT Å KOMME ETTER (NÅR HAN ER BLITT KJENT MED BYEN SLIK AT DET BLIR ENKLERE FOR MEG) UANSETT SÅ BEGYNNER PAKKINGEN DENNE UKEN... OG FORVENTNINGENE MINE ER SKYHØYE! GLEDER MEG TIL Å LEGGE UT PÅ NYE EVENTYR!!! [View Full Entry]

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Here in San Diego, people are a lot nicer than in Los Angeles. Los Angeles is a massive hole. I don't know why Americans think it's the place to make a dream come true, because 99% of the place is a slum. Beverly Hills is nice, and Hollywood is ok. Downtown had nothing happening when we went there at 5 in the afternoon. We were staying in Santa Monica, which I'm guessing is chockers in Summer because it's very close to Venice Beach, but was quiet while we were there. Of course our first two meals of the trip were at [View Full Entry]

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JustinoThe past few weeks have been a haze of getting our house project as far as we can, packing up, moving into a rental in Dog Beach, and getting work under control. In 3 days I leave San Diego for DC and then I will meet Heidi, Zack, and Alec in San Francisco on December 11th to start our 6 month adventure. The beginning of our itinerary is the only part that is set. San Francisco-Newark-London-Newark-Beijing. We'll be in China before the new year. [View Full Entry]

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Second stop: San Diego Dodgy rating: 4/10 Crazy Count: 10 + Fun Rating: 8/10 - Raving Fun We begin the day in style, breakfasting (does water count?) with Caths media mates at the prestigious LA Roosavelt, the place to be seen apparently if you're an LA darling. Word on the street has it Sir Richard Branson is gracing the premises also so as we waltz round the plush corridors and out to the pool area, quite out of place in our traveler’s rags, we glance round hoping to catch a glimpse of the big man. Surprisingly, Sir B chooses not to [View Full Entry]

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Southern California: 1st September 2008 Our first stop back in the States was San Diego, just a short tram ride from the Mexican border. We had booked a hostel in the centre of town for three nights which was right next to the Gas Light district where all the restaurants and bars are. Although San Diego is quite a large city, it never seemed too busy and it was easy to get around. While there we visited the attractions at Ocean Beach, a laidback surfer hangout with lots of bars and surf shops. We also spent a whole day at the [View Full Entry]

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***FIRST, JUST TO COVER MY ASS, ACCORDING TO CRYSTAL: THIS BLOG IS OF MY OWN VIEWS AND EXPERIENCES, AND DOES not REFLECT THE VIEWS OR MISSION STATEMENT OF THE COMPANY I WORK FOR. I ENJOY MY CIVIL RIGHTS AS AN AMERICAN UNDER THE 1ST AMENDMENT. Well, here I am getting this thing started, I hope to make entries each day, here is a running blog prior to me finding this site and oh yes a few pic's of being on the road..... September 08,2009 Well its been a very interesting and tiring time to set up this blog thing…I still haven’t [View Full Entry]

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9 days in the land of dreams... San Diego, CA We landed in LAX..tired and stressed out! Customs was a breeze for Oscar...Stu looked shifty and got the 3rd degree from the LAPD! We headed straight for the union train station and caught the 4.10pm to San Diego. When we arrived at San Diego Santa Fe depot, it was dark and we were dazed and confused..we hadn't slept in 48hrs :( We called the first hostel we saw advertised..Ocean Beach International Hostel (No Americans allowed..bonus! :p). The hostel had a really nice atmosphere and everyone was friendly. We chatted to [View Full Entry]

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