Howdee folks howyal doin, the last entry made was from Southsea which seems a million miles away, in fact it probably is, since then we have made some considerable adjustments to our lifestyle. We have down sized from the relative luxury of our beloved van to carrying all our wordly goods in a couple of rucksacs and sleeping in the equivalent of a crisp packet. The transition from luxury to poverty, from UK to USA ,from pounds to dollars was fairly uneventful. The outward flight was delayed by 5 hours so added to a 10 hour flight made hard going. Eventually after reading everything to hand including guidebooks,newspapers,spanish dictionaries and flight safety cards together with games of eye spy and 'guess which air hostess I would most like to sit on my face' we arrived at
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