Day 183 Monday 8th March 2010 Johno says We were all ready bright and early for the next stint of driving from Boron to San Francisco, Liam and I couldn't believe that the night before we had been talking to some locals from nearby the legion bar - they were so welcoming that one even bought us two beers each when we first arrived. Dusty (one of the locals) told us about his job of guiding a space shuttle's back down to earth, craziness. Stacey had scared Liam ...

Day 178 Wednesday 3rd March 2010 Johno says Today we were moving on from LA to Vegas via an early morning Greyhound bus. The Greyhound buses in USA were a fair amount less comfortable than the Australian version and the nature of the clientele were a bit different, we are definitely starting to get the feeling that the USA is just full of random crazy strange types that you probably wouldn't want to meet in a dark alley at night. We arrived into Vegas early aft...

Day 175 Sunday 28th February 2010 Johno says The ten hour flight from the Cook Islands went reasonably quickly with the in-flight meal feeling like it was a night out with no cooking to be done and red wine served regularly to the table. We landed in LA for around midday and we were shocked at the size of the arrival terminal - it was the same size as Rarotonga airport lounge with only a Starbucks to keep us entertained until Liam's arrival a few hours later....

Day 167 Saturday 20th February 2010 (again) Johno saysSaturday 20th February 2010 again, yes we had traveled over the international date line and forward to the past and not back to the future. Instead of being thirteen hours ahead we were now ten hours behind which made a day of traveling easier to cope with knowing we wasn't actually losing any hours. First of all, we had a domestic flight back from Christchurch to Auckland at 11.30am, then a flight to Raroton...

Day 164 Thursday 18th February 2010 Johno says Today we transferred to Christchurch through the foothills of the Southern Alps, it was a miserable day so we didn't have many stops on the way. Then we made it through the flat Canterbury plains which is a total contrast to the hills and mountains that we have been seeing for the past week or so. The coach driver was asking questions to the passengers and I suggested she asked 'how many muscles a cat has in its ea...