Not wanting to arrive in a huge city at night we set off on our 6 hour drive up to San Fran pretty hasty. It wasn't long as usual before Claire was dozing and it wasn't soon after that, when Dave woke Claire up to the flashing lights of a police car that had pulled him over for speeding! He was extremely lucky and didn't even get a ticket! We arrived at our motel but settled down for the night as we were up early to visit The Rock AKA Alcatraz. Dave being his ni...

At 4.30 am we got our wake up call on arriving to the airport we said our goodbyes to Claire and Reidy. After a 5 hour flight we landed in LA and went to pick up our hire car - the cheapest one we could find online. We were told that we could choose ANY car from section 9 which was as expected full of small old cars. We slowly started walking down the row of cars trying to pick out the least embarassing when at the end we saw something stand out. It was a brand ...