Woke up after a much needed 8 hour sleep in our technicolor cabin at Nine Palms Inn. Each wall / door / window frame was painted a different colour and these included lime green, apricot, yellow and damson-fool purple. It was striking to say the least and at $46 a night we were not complaining! The owner moved here from Warwickshire and previously ran a hotel in Baryow-in-Furness. He had a series of ten coloured fountains in buckets outside his cottage designed ...

A very brief summary of a crazy day.... Arrived in Los Angeles at 5am. We had plans to land at LA airport and research our day's touring using the airport wifi and/or a guidebook from an airport bookshop over breakfast. We landed at terminal 7. No wifi, no shops, no coffee shops or restaurants. And two people at the information desk who could barely remember their own names! We decide to abandon all that and instead made our way to EZ rentals to pick up our hire ...

Wednesday 22nd October. North west Maui and on to Los Angeles. Our last morning in Hawaii... We had got rather used to waking up to bright sunshine and the sound of the ocean... No run today. Just packing followed by a glorious swim in the pool. After coffee and croissants we did some planning for our LA road trip. Mustang booked for pick up at 5am tomorrow morning. Tick. Tour around LA researched. Tick. Hotels? Wait and see. Then it was time to move out and mov...

Tuesday 20th October. Ridiculously early start today! Up at 2.15 and out of the door by 3am! This was all in a good cause, however, as. we had a big day planned. With mountain bikes and helmets loaded we set off to drive to the top of the Haleakala Crater. 10,023 feet high and a magnificent place to view sunrise. There were also great treks to be done in the crater and a famous downhill mountain bike trail - the Skyline Trail - from the summit. We were warned tha...

Yesterday was so good, we thought we would do it all again today! We woke to wind, waves and sunshine and repeated our run along the beach and boardwalk, then swam in the sea, out round the buoy. Over breakfast Chris researched and booked bike hire and then we packed up and headed back to Kanaha Bay for a long afternoon of windsurfing. Now familiar with the kit, the boys flew in and out - planing, gybing and smiling. A lot! B and K fended off the attentions of...