From San Francisco we had another fun overnight flight to get to New York City - we left SF at 1am, flew into Dallas (who knows why!?), then had about 10 minutes to make the connection onto our flight to New York. We made it with a couple of minutes to spare, then we had another 3 hours flight up to our destination. We arrived at lunchtime and, because we'd been on a domestic flight we hadn't been given any food on the plane, so we hung around in the arrivals ha...

After a long day of travelling, with a stop in Seattle, we made it from Hawaii to San Francisco. It wasn't quite dark when we landed, so we got a nice view of the city and the Golden Gate Bridge as we descended down to the airport. From there we got a shuttle bus to our hotel in the downtown area near the docks - it's a really nice place, a Victorian style hotel with authentic everything, and a huge plus was that it is so quiet compared to hostels - absolute blis...

We left the Blue Lagoon Beach Resort on Nacula island and got the 4 hour return boat back to Nadi on the mainland, where we were staying for one night before flying on to Hawaii. Unfortunately our flight didn't leave Fiji until midnight the next day (!), but luckily the staff at our hotel in Nadi were really nice - they let us have a late checkout for free, and then let us hang around the resort until our ride came to take us to the airport; they even left our ta...