Our last few days in California have been far less extravagant than our previous couple of weeks, but just as enjoyable. We left San Francisco having had a great time there and with a bit of time to play with before heading southwards to LA, we spent the day in Napa Valley, also known as, Wine Region! Napa itself was fairly uninspiring but we moved on to the town of Sonoma which was thoroughly charming. The streets were lined with trees turning shades of gold a...

Greetings once again! So we left Vegas and drove through some rather arid desert to a small town called Williams, which is in Arizona so we clocked up another state! We went via the Hoover Dam which was erm...well just a very large dam! But another landmark ticked off the list... The next day we drove up into the Grand Canyon National Park and went and marvelled at the huge and slightly strange crater in the middle of the earth! It is massive, very impressive,...

*A nice short one for you to make up for the last one!* Okay blog fans, sadly no pictures of San Diego so you're stuck with the old LA one, but never mind. "What've we been up to??" I hear you cry... Well, we sadly left the Stalboerger's residence in LA. Joan and Eric were such good hosts to us, and we certainly wouldn't have appreciated LA as much had we not stayed with them. We are looking forward to returning to LA the day before our flight out to...

Oh my...so much to catch up on already!! I will try and make this as brief as possible...but there's a lot to say! Since we arrived in the States we have been keeping ourselves very busy, places to go, people to see, that sort of thing. The flight from Samoa thankfully went without a hitch and we arrived into LAX around lunchtime. 'Ooh' we thought, 'I bet LAX will be nice, what with it being a big airport and what not'...err, no, it wasn't fancy or even particul...