So. (I know everything starts with so but it's such an effective word - it says so much). Getting to Boston take two. On Saturday I tried again and actually got to Boston this time but it was not a good first impression. The hostel I was booked into was awful, really awful. So far I've stayed in some pretty dodgy places but this one takes the cake. Plastic mattresses covered in mould with cuts and slashes held together with peeling off sticky tape. Stained sheets...

So here's an update on me (Jess). I stayed in Toronto (home of the world's Biggest Everything according to the Canadians - world's biggest book store, world's biggest dvd section, world's longest street, world's tallest building) for an extra day after Sarah left and did some more exploring and, of most importance...washed my clothes. That was awesome! (I'm not joking, really, awesome). And that night watched some dodgy Canadian t.v. with some hostel people and ...

Snoooooooow. There's snow everywhere. Snow snow snow. Wonderful snow. Snow.

Hey hey Katie..... Jammin'. Happy Birthday Sarah! xo So we're in Vancouver and yeah... not impressed. Caught the bus up on Tuesday and met Bob the trucker at Seattle Greayhound station - awesome. He was old and had a moustache and was wearing a leather vest and had a hat that said 'The Highway is my Way'. And he was eating chicken. Anyway, bus trip, blah blah, customs, blah blah... On the first night we went out to a comedy club night thing organised by the h...

Yo Ho Ho and a bottle of rum. We're in Seattle. (I don't quite know what that has to do with Seattle but it sounded good). So, we arrived in Seattle on the 10th after a 20 hour long bus ride from San Francisco. Which included my first ever experience with snow. Yay! It may have been dirty and old and at a service station in the middle of nowehere but it was snow dammit! It also included twinkies, Sarah bought twinkies at the very same servo to celebrate my firs...