Well we arrived safely in Fiji after stopping at Christmas Island for 45 minutes and crossing the international dateline (i.e. we lost a day and no alcohol was involved!) It is very very hot here, although it has rained all day so far. We are off to the Yasawa Islands tomorrow where the electricity stops at midnight and there are no phones, so complete solitude. New Year in Hawaii is was great fun and the fireworks on waikiki beach were amazing. It's strange t...

Aloha from Hawaii Well we made it to the final stop and have been here for just under two weeks. We are staying about two streets (or blocks) away from the beach at Waikiki and it is everything you could imagine it to be. As it is Christmas and New Year it is really really busy, however we have still been able to sit on the beach and enjoy the lovely weather. Whilst we have been here we have been to Pearl Harbour, where we visited the USS Arizona Memorial. ...

We arrived in San Francisco on Thursday 13th December 2007 and began our visit by walking up one of the hills with our backpacks on!!! Not a good idea at the best of times let alone when you have just travelled for 8 hours on the greyhound. Anyway after finding our hotel (in the end) we have really enjoyed our trip to San Francisco and it has definately been the best city we have visited. On Friday we went for a walk along Fishermans Wharf, which is really to...

OK so we have now left Vegas for the second time and are off to our second to last state, California. Our first stop was to the backpackers must see attraction of Disney World, which was the usual mix of rides, kids, and fatties in wheel chairs. The next day we journied across to Disneys sister park (aptley named) California, which was good fun. However the sunny state decided to get its annual rain fall in one day, and we ended up wet through allday (it did not ...

On Saturday 17th November 2007 we travelled on the overnight Greyhound from Denver to Vegas. Our coach left Denver at 6:00pm and arrived in Vegas at 8:50am and surprisingly it wasn't as bad as you might think! Of course there was the usual mix of weirdos that you get on the Greyhound (it is part of the experience) and the obligatory stop in the middle of nowhere at 1am, but we both managed to get some sleep and the best thing was waking up to the sun coming up ov...