Blogs from North America - page 9363

Woke up at 4:15 AM and then... Well we drove all day and night to L.A. (didn't leave my house until about 6:00AM) and it was pretty intense, because of all the partying and stuff to take care of last week we all realized a few hours into the drive that we were extremely behind in our sleep. I took the first shift, drove to Mt. St. Helen's exit in southern Washington, and then Jord took over and drove to Eugene Oregon. We bought Ryan a new digital camera, which worked out great since in retrospect there is no tax in Oregon. Ry drove from there to the Cali border where we almost ran out of gas, thankfully some tiny gas station in an unknown town saved our ass. I took over the drive from there ... read more

The next morning after doing some much needed laundry we set off to San Fransisco, arriving around lunchtime. Our first real experience of crack addicts - which was truly disturbing. As we were quite early, the room at the hotel wasn't ready, so we parked the car in the hotel garage and went off in search of some action. We found it at Castro (the Gay district). There was a "Post Pride" festival on (what luck); food, music stalls and beer!! We stayed till it finished in the late afternoon, and a nice old fella called George helped us find the way home (because of the festival some of the tram stops were closed. Of course we bumped in to a "queen from Sydney" his own words (I think Ausies are other Ausie magnets)! And ... read more

So we drove on to Yosemite with a brief stop in a motel in Merced to give our backs a rest. We were told it would be impossible to get a space on a camp site but actually we had no trouble. We stayed here for a few days and went on a horse ride, hired bikes and did a couple of walks. The famous waterfalls weren't flowing but we saw lots of wildlife - a couple of different types of squirrel including small red stripey ones, a tarantula, lots of deer, a wolf ( we think ). On our last walk on which I left Sara for the bears half way up I saw a large Bob Cat which is a lot cuter than a mountain lion looking mostly like a super size moggy.... read more

We Have Arrived into The USA after many Long hours on the 13 hour flight from sydney to San Francisco in which were refused alcohol due to daniels Mate!! (A 40 Year Old Drunk Girl from Not Sure America Some Where) To paint a picture White Shirt Drink Red Wine need i say any more LOL!! we are all proud of that effort.. We pickup up our Supershuttle from the airport to the hotel we check in Handlery Union Square Right in the main part of town since im a veteran US traveler Dan had to Adjust A little quicker than me who would of thought the walking across the road would be so hard LOOK LEFT FIRST TRUST ME!! First stop Subway we needed food after 21 hours of no sleep so far we needed ... read more

Ivan flew in from OKC to enjoy 4 nights in Las Vegas with Kim and I. We had a blast.....and missed WAY TOO MUCH sleep. That is what a Vegas vacation is all about....staying up too late, gambling a little, eating too much, drinking a little and just having fun. The vacation was a blur....but I'll do my best to remember LOL. OCT 2 Sunday Ivan arrived around 3:30pm and we headed to our first hotel.....The Luxor. Kim and I had checked in early and had a bottle of Asti Spumanti waiting on ice....so we could toast our vacation. Kim and Ivan just LOVE the Egyptian theme at the Luxor so the setting couldn't be more perfect. We were on the 28th floor which had a nice view of the mountains. The first night we had ... read more