We got up, had breakfast and got set off for about 10.00am this monring. Today's plan is to drive through Death Valley and onto somewhere close to Las Vegas. It didn't take too long to get into the Death Valley area. We stopped along the way for a few photographs beside some cool looking trees in the otherwise baron landscape. Into Death Valley we drove nearly half way through before stopping at Stovepipe Wells which is a place with a shop and a campsite. We got ...

We got up and had breakfast which was included and checked out for 10.00am, we then sat in the car for about an hour organising what we're doing over the next few days while we have a car. Once organised we realised we have an extra day we could use to explore this area of the country a little better. So the plan is to drive a bit north to a ghost town called Bodie. We got organised and set off, it's definitely hot again today, glad for some air con. We pulled of...

We got up quite early this morning as we've got quite a bit of driving to do to get to Yosemite and out of the other side today. We first grabbed some breakfast once we'd checked out and then went to a supermarket called Food Maxx to get some bits we could have for lunch as a picnic in the park today. After we'd got a few bits and stopped off for petrol we got on our way. It was quite a drive to the edge of the park and once we'd paid the $20 fee and got on the r...

We got up fairly early this morning to get off to the giant forest in the Sequoia National Park. It took a couple of hours to get there but it was beautiful driving there so I'm looking forward to seeing what's inside. We had to pay $20 to get into the National Park. We drove in noticing that we didn't have much petrol (gas) and there was nowhere to buy any in the National Park, we're hoping we'll be ok though. First stop was the Giant Forest where we went on a w...

Our body clocks still haven't quite adjusted to the change of time, or change of season. In New Zealand it was getting dark around 4.30pm-5.00pm and now in America it's around 9.00pm. Which means we are going to bed a lot later and getting up later. This morning we got up at about 9.30am, I got skyping mum and dad while James went downstairs to get a cup of free coffee for each of us. Loved catching up with mum and dad. I got a shower whilst James started to skyp...