It is sooo easy to lose track of days while on holiday ! :) I find myself having to give considered thought to work out which day it is... As we are past the date line for Australia, I'm actually typing this Sunday morning, and it's about 1.00am Monday morning in Perth... Maybe I'm just getting old... Nah... Friday for us was a quiet one. We slothed around the home for most of the morning, trying to plan the next steps of the trip. We now have most of it sorted u...

This city is "BIG" ! Using Google maps, I measure about 120km from one side of the urban sprawl to the other. It has a population in excess of 12 million! I don't think we are going to see it all in one visit.... We have decided on a few places of interest and a couple of must see's. Venturing out of our cliff top house around 11.30am, we had decided to use a hop on hop off bus to get our bearings. The Chinese theatre on Hollywood Boulevard is a cross over point...

After a good nights sleep, we were up and going to breakfast about 8.30am. As this was only a stop over for the night, I had decided to just book a motel. The $105.00 deal included breakfast. Entering the dining room, which wasn't much bigger than my kitchen, we were confronted with quite a few family's jostling to get what remained of a continental breakfast. Observing the amount of elbow action taking place, I opted to grab a few muffins and a coffee, Brad made...

Up n about around 7.30am, saw us packing and ready to go as planned. We dropped Ethel at the carpark where we had found her and left the keys under a rock in the gravel as requested... She had served us well and we're off to collect our Mustang.. at least we thought we were... Phone calls on Saturday, Monday and this morning had failed to secure a commitment from the nice people at Hertz that we would indeed have a Mustang. Although very friendly, even suggesting...

Setting the alarm for 6.00am, Brad had set his for 5.45, but it didn't go off (surprise), we were off to the ferry by 6.45am. Our intention was to go to SF on the 7.10am ferry from Sausalito, book our place on the standby list for the 5.00pm tour, have some breakfast and then come back. Realising our camera battery was flat as we walked out the door wasn't too important. Sure enough, when we approached the counter on the dock, we were met with a "No Sir, the stan...