We left San Francisco and made our way to Arcata. This was a lovely american town. We were lying on the bed chatting about the Titanic for some strange reason when the whole room started moving. It was wierd and scary. We made our way to the reception and asked what was going on. The receptionist seemed unconcerned and said it was just an earthquake. Well we found out later it measured 5.5 on the Richter scale. Mine & Anna's first earthquake experience. We ma...

I arrived in LA and American Airlines had not managed to lose my luggage. What a relief. I have heard US airlines are quite good at doing this. Anna was going to be landing in another 5 hours time and so I went and got a hire car and then drove to Venice Beach to the hostel that I had booked for us. Yes I was on a budget and 5 * luxury in LA is expensive. I then went and picked Anna up at the airport and was very happy to see her again. Anna's first comment when ...