Planning for a reasonably early start on Sunday saw us come undone from the start... Still snoozing at 10.00am made for a very late start to our day. Finally engaging gear in Ethel about 11.30 and using our sparkling new GPS to find our way through SF, we headed off. Hertz wanted to charge us $18.00 / day for one of their "never lost" units. We found out the fun way in Italy that "never lost" is not a very accurate description for the system. Brad doing what he ...

Up and about around 8.30 this morning and feeling pretty good. While our cottage is great in many ways, the distance and cost of transport are somewhat limiting. I'm still assessing expenses, but this trip is shaping up to be a lot more expensive than Europe. The taxi to the ferry was $25.00, 2 x ferry ticket $32.00. return, taxi home $18.00... and that's just to get to the city and back... Deciding we needed to get our own wheels, we contacted a local wheeler an...

Landing about 12.00pm, we had managed to time it perfectly for the bus ride out to Sausalito. A 5 minute taxi ride and we were home. We are using Air BnB again for this trip, so I've booked us into a cottage in the Bay Area of San Francisco. From the deck area of the cottage, we have a view over the bay. As the afternoon cooled, we watched the fog engulf the city, leaving only the tips of the sky scrapers visible. Rolling off the hills to our right and over the b...

Well that was a surprise !! Must have missed the bit about stopping over in South Korea when I booked the tickets... Doh! The itinerary had changed quite a few times while planning and I thought we had avoided a stop over, but apparently not the case :) Had a few anxious moments when we were being hussled into the queue for a flight to Seoul when we wanted to go to San Francisco, but the penny dropped a few seconds later. This flight was on a Boeing 777, very mod...

Well, we are finally at "D" day. As predicted, the last few days of work have been a little crazy with a myriad of things to get done, let alone packing and getting ready to leave! There are still a few work things I didn't have time to take care of, most of which I will clean up over the first few days of being away. The flight to Singapore was fairly uneventful. As we left at 1.00am Perth time, we snoozed most of the way, with Brad having no trouble settling ...