Joey and I arrived in New York on 7th September 09 on the first leg of our journey, this was to be a very gentle introduction to the travelling lifestyle as I stayed with my cousin Kelly and her husband James in their home in Hoboken, New Jersey whilst Joey stayed with her friend Corinne in Whippany, NJ. As we were only in town for 4 and a half days we decided that we needed to pack in as much sightseeing as possible so started early on the Tuesday visiting Cent...

Arrived in LA late to find that either I, or the hostel hadn't booked a bed for Joey, however what could have been a complete nightmare of an evening turned out to be really cool as they upgraded us from dorms to a private room for no extra cost, result! We went off into LA to visit Hollywood bright and early the next morning, we had decided that ti save money we would get the local bus instead of a tourist bus, it was very amusing, everyone talks to you and are ...