So, this morning Claire woke up feeling sick and I woke up super grumpy and tired. I wasn't looking forward to another long day driving after yesterday but how different today ended up. It turned out to be a great day and restored our faith in our crazy, ambitious monstrosity of a roadtrip! We started off with a free breakfast, always a bonus, and filled up with fuel and popped into Whole Foods before leaving Santa Barbara. Whole Foods was A.M.A.Z.I.N.G. We saw...

I'll start by saying that today has not been the best day, so I'll try to write this as positively as I can! We woke up kinda gutted that both of us had fallen asleep before the ending of Jurassic Park! Another film, another ending missed, that aside we bounced up and down to the pool where we had the whole complex to ourselves! Unfortunately what we did forget was suncream and water and breakfast! Swam for about hour and then realised we were starving and dehy...

Waking up to a sea view is always awesome. Sadly it was grey and cloudy this morning, but pretty nonetheless. We went out to the Truckstop cafe for breakfast, as recommended by the hotel. I had the hub pancakes with strawberry and blueberry - delicious but ginormous (I still have half left in the fridge!) - and Claire had the Simple breakfast - egg, hash brown and sugar syrup bacon. Delicious! After breakfast we took a slow walk down to the beach, tipped our toes...

We were supposed to leave LA today and head down to San Diego to explore, but we had a niggling feeling about Disneyland that wasn't quite finished. So we decided to use our three day City Pass and return to the Disneyland Park, hopefully in a calmer environment than we had left it the other evening. We had a lazy morning, packed up our extra suitcase that we had bought from the hotel shop (a bargain from all the cases we've seen!) and squeezed everything into S...

First stop this morning was Universal Studios in Hollywood. The weather forecast was for some early cloud followed by sunshine, but on the trip to Universal the cloud was so low it was almost fog and the rain started. Perhaps shorts were a bad idea after all? We parked the car in Curious George, 3Q and walked through City Limits, towards the park. It was pretty chilly so when we walked past Abercrombie we couldn't resist nipping in to buy a couple of hoodies. The...