We arrived in Santa Cruz on a weekday to find the famous boardwalk from the film "The Lost Boys" closed until the weekend :( So we took a stroll on the Pier and headed to one of the many seafood restaurants on offer. Aimee spent a while taking photos of all the seals that had a permanent spot on a pontoon to the side of the pier, before we headed to the beach to make the most of our last week of guaranteed sun for a while! The place was fairly quiet and chilled o...

The temperature was a lot different when we arrived in San Francisco, the air was cooler and we felt like we could breath again, however, we cant help but miss Las Vegas already! We decided to spend our first day in SF checking out the famous Pier 39, at $8 per hour to park they certainly knew how to make their money out of us tourists! Regardless of the parking, the Pier was great fun, they had heaps of funky souvenir and candy shops and is also home to a seal c...

As we stepped off the plane in Las Vegas, the 44 degree heat was a bit of a shock, and we thought San diego was hot! The airport was fairly quiet so we picked up our bags and got a taxi, or "Cab". Although the driver was quite entertaining this proved to be an expensive ride, as we later found out she charged us over double the going rate. We expected to lose a few bucks here, but not quite that quickly! Anyway, we arrive at the Monte Carlo resort, and decided to...

The 10 hour flight from Fiji went surprisingly fast and before we knew it we had touched down in LA and were taking in the incredible heat. After picking up our hire car we headed to Downtown where we had booked a hotel room for a few days. Driving through LA was certainly daunting with up to 8 lanes across the highway and huge cars leaving us for dust. In the morning we headed to Hollywood for the day, stopping for our first Mexican lunch (we'd heard the mexica...

We arrived at Nadi airport to a singing welcome from the airport staff. This soon erased the memory of the long wait for the flight back in Auckland. We had a couple of days in Nadi, staying at Smugglers Cove. Our first night was spent chilling in the hammocks with a couple of drinks, until 11pm when all the lights were turned off without warning and the bar closed, thats early even for us!! The following day we awoke to rain, so after booking our island hoping ...