After another dreadfully long 11 hour flight, we arrived in Fiji, just as the sun was rising, we had a wonder around the surrounds of our hostel which is a lovely 2 minutes walk from the beach. I can see how people easily get stuck in the Fiji lifestyle and don't ever leave, only been here a day and love being on 'Fiji Time' (as they call it), they very much have the 'no worries' mentality and are really easy going and lovely. We did forget that when we was boo...

Thursday; last day in LA. We decided to head back down to Hollywood to see it all properly this time as we only did a drive through last time. We was meant to go to San Diego but Google didn't give us good enough 'top 10' reasons to go there. We hit Hollywood boulevard, started to walk down and look at the Hollywood stars on the pavement, we think we started in the dodgy end of Hollywood judging by the beggers etc, we got our first little dose of seeing poverty a...

So Tuesday we did the tourist thing and drove down to Beverley Hills and Hollywood, as much as we were following our sat navvy, we saw the Hollywood sign and just drove straight for it, ended up at the bottom of the hills, parked up and started trekking up to get the perfect picture, we realised about 20 mins in, after stones were trapped in our sandals and our one water bottle was emptying rapidly, that we slightly underestimated the hike, we decided to turn bac...

Woke up at 7am and managed to get 7 hours or so sleep, which was a good effort, just need to keep on the move and no napping!! Hopefully keep the jet lag down to a minimum. The first day out in the wilderness of LA today, we rented a car, a beautiful Mazda 3 (which seems nicer then the wheels I have back home), named it Verve! Livy was the brave one and drove it to the GAS (!) station, where it took us a while work out their system but got there in the end and ...

Our upside down journey started 200+ days ago when we first booked the trip but the day of actually putting our rucksacks on and making our way to the airport came around so quick. After I got over the stress of packing my rucksack for the final time and trying to function on minimal hours sleep (!!), the laavely miss Katy, miss Soozie and I got on the road to Heathrow. Turns out that after all of my efforts, Livy won on the lightest bag but mine came in at 10 o...