Blogs from California, United States, North America - page 979

Today we set off from LA to Monterey. After waiting for ages at Alamo as their computers aren't working, we pick out our Pontiac GT. It's nice, it's very nice and it goes very very fast. The speed is wasted as the speed limit is 65 in all the states we're visiting. We set the Sat Nav for Monterey and drive via Pacific Coast Highway. Kev pulls over in Santa Monica so I can take photos of the pier, it's the one used in the Lost Boys and makes me feel like I'm a teenager again. As we drive up the beach I spot a Taco Bell and as we missed breakfast, it's chicken burritos at 10.30am! We leave Santa Monica, still on Pacific Coast Highway, drive through Malibu and gawp at the beautiful beach ... read more

As I said in my last entry lets have some fun,USA lika Australia is a big country ,when I say big I also mean the people so I am including the PIE scale as and when I see it . For those of you who don't know what the PIE scale is:- Many moons ago in the UK there was a comic called The Beano or The Dandy in it was a character called Desperate Dan a real strong man ,he had an enormous appetite ,his favourite food was Cow Pie,they contained a whole Cow they were huge so the Pie scale was born .The PIE scale is graded by how many Desperate Dan pies one can eat. The number of Pies relates to the size of the person 1 being the smallest 10 being ... read more

Monday April 16, We arranged a Lincoln Town car Limousine to take us to Kennedy Airport this morning for our flight to Los Angeles. Check in was a breeze, we didn’t have to take our bags anywhere for scrutiny at all, it just went down the belt, quite different to other airports where it is taken aside and X rayed. We walked to the Admirals Club, which is the American Airlines lounge. It was quite roomy, but all they were serving was coffee, tea, juice and a plain bagel. Paul got on line to read the Sydney Morning Herald but it was blocked, as were all Aussie news sites, the prompt said it was due to due to 'violence and hate' contained on it. Obviously their net guard blankets a lot of sites this way. ... read more

Hi there - We're still traveling the country - we've finally figured out the wifi thing, altho we're now on our way to Yosemite, so this entry will be pretty short! We have driven so far from Jacksonville! Through Oklahoma, TX, New Mexico, AZ, into California - it has been a great 9 days so far. I will update this blog as I can - we're seeing so much, it's hard to pull off and stop! I am going to try and upload some pictures of the past couple days. Hope you're all doing great! It's incredible that our country has such beautiful places - places that you would never think of - but they're out there! :) Will write more soon - D + L ... read more

Quicky entry for travel day 1.. Plane delayed leaving Heathrow with passenger escorted off plane. Would love to say why but we didnt get the benefit of seeing anything. Delay caused by the off loading of his sodding baggage... Long flight, good films, passable food, excellent service though then the joy of Los Angeles Immigration. After approximately 12 hours on the plane, the prospect of a 2 hour wait to be interrogated makes you wonder why the hell you would choose to come (back) to the US! A travel tip, give at least 4 hours for a connecting flight, better to do an overnight stay and travel the next day, so many of our fellow passengers got caught out like this. Luckily we had booked into the Airport Marriot with what appeared to be the entire ... read more