Blogs from California, United States, North America - page 1152

Okay so here's a rough road map of our travels. All in the hope that everyone that's promised to meet us somewhere will start making some real plans. And those who have not will be tempted to do so. February/March/April 2005 - SOUTH AMERICA February 21 to March 10 - Chilean Patagonia (Torres del Paine)and Tierra Del Fuego March 10 to March 20 - Santiago and vicinity March 20 to March 28 - Buenos Aires, Argentina March 29 to April 9 - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil April 10 to April 24 - Peru (Machu Pichu and the Amazon) April 25 - Return to San Francisco May/June 2005 AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND (5 WEEKS) June/July/August 2005 - EUROPE/AFRICA/ASIA Exact dates for these travels are not known but here's a rough plan. Fly into Spain from USA and ... read more

Hey folks, Here we are - our final spot in the 2 weeks of the US of A. We opted for the money saving option of travelling overnight on the greyhound from San Francisco to Hollywood. Fortunately this time we foudn a seat by the emergency exit, which meant extra leg room...and that was about it really. The journey took a dooable 8 hours, during which we had a stop at a Burger King, in the middle of nowhere. Had to make a loo stop so followed the other bus dwellers into the BK and foudn the restrooms. And then I went back to the bus. Some people, on the other hand, thought it a good plan to have a BK whopper meal at 3am in the morning. Now, I was hungry at this time, but ... read more

So, I'm about to buy a car. Actually, I don't even have a driverslicense yet. I did my DMV test last wednesday, but I failed. My last driving lesson that I had, I was driving when it was dark outside. At one point when I was making a right turn, I drove up on the curb with my rear tire. I couldn't see the goddamn curb, there was no lights there so I couldn't see anything in the mirror. So anyway, my instructor told me that if I did that at the DMV, they would fail me immediately. But she said she wasn't worried because I'd never done that before. So, we went to the DMV on wednesday. I me the guy that was going to test me. And the first thing I do, is drive ... read more

Hey folks, Well, we survived the bus...all 12.5 hours of it. Managed to get a bit of sleep, despite it being totally freezing for the whole journey. Arrived around lunchtime and decided it wasn't too far to the hostel, so we'd walk it, complete with rucksacks and all. Fortunately we didn't have to hike up any of the notoriously steep hills to get there, but did have to negotiate 6 flights of stairs once we'd arrived: the sedatary commute of the last 6 months seems a distant memory! Having showered and eaten, we headed for the harbour to check out the Alcatraz tour times for tomorrow. Managed to stop a couple of times on the way, once for a quick look around a magnificent Catholic Cathedral, and a second for a devine brownie and coffee. Timed ... read more

Wow San Francisco is amazing! and we got to see quite a bit of it because when we arrived at 9 o'clock on Friday night a couple of very tired boys, we took about 50 wrong turns on the crazy highway system they've got going on there and it took us 4hours and few laps of San Francisco, San Jose and Oakland to finally find my friends brother who was too drunk to come and find us... Huge welcome to San Fran party that night with Seth and a few of his friends and nieghbours, then we spent the next couple of days recovering at Chantal and Matts converted wharehouse flat with their tattoo artist flatemates and their pet snake and Chinchilla(aka - Killer Chilla). Also got to watch the sunset glow light up the Golden ... read more