After a quick 1 night stop over in LA we drove into the Nevada desert, through hours of nothing we came over the hill and there in the distance was Las Vegas! We pulled up to the Luxor, which is a huge pyramid shaped hotel at the bottom of the strip. We dropped our bags in our room and made our way out to enjoy the next few days experiencing the highs and lows of Sin City! Las Vegas is big, flashy, classy, tacky, sleazy, rich and poor - and we loved it! Walking...

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 ...

After begrudgingly getting up at 5am we managed to catch the first ferry to Maui, where we then caught a taxi to our rented condo in Kihei on the South coast. The Condo was to be our home for the next week, and it was brilliant! The condo was huge with 2 seperate bedrooms, a great kitchen and dining room as well as a huge lounge with a massive flat screen tv. We had unlimited use of the property's facilities which included a large outdoor swimming pool, a full s...

Well, we flew from Nadi to Honalulu on Sunday night, then we arrived in Honalulu on Sunday morning! Thats right, we have flown back in time!! Honalulu is basically a city by the beach. We are in the US now so everything is obviously American like the fast food joint on every corner, cars driving on the wrong side of the road, everybody shouting rather than just talking, a lot of diets being needed. Welcome to America! We spent the first night in a hostel chill...