After a good night and a nice breakfast at the motel, we hit the road to head for the Santa Monica Pier and the end of Route 66! It was only 20 or so kms away but once again traffic jams slowed us to a standstill and it was after 11am before we got there and drove the last leg of the route! Message to Perth drivers: If you think the piddling hold ups on the Kwinana and Mitchell Freeways are bad enough to whinge about non stop, then come to the USA, hire a car and...

Checked out of our motel this morning and made our way downtown and had a great late brekky, then headed to the USS Midway Museum where we spent over 2 hours looking over the huge aircraft carrier! What a fantastic attraction it is - the audio tour was first class and we looked at most of the ship, including the engine room, galleys and much, much more! All this for $20 too! It was quite hot and claustrophobic in some parts below the main hangar deck, but out on ...

We landed in LA just after midday (still Saturday) and were quite quickly through Customs etc., and then thankfully our cases popped out onto the conveyor - quite a worry when you check the bags in at Perth and then don't see them for 35 hours! We caught a shuttle bus over to the Dollar Car Rental depot and were shocked to see 40+ people waiting to rent vehicles! But that was the easy part because after waiting 45 minutes to sign the papers we were told to he...

It was about 7.30am before I struggled out of bed this morning, feeling refreshed after a 12 hour sleep! Had a bit of a struggle to make a cup of tea, using the standard coffee machine to heat up some water and then resorting to bunging it into the microwave to make it hot enough to enjoy. After getting organised Jase and I walked about half a kilometre up to Sepulveda Boulevarde and found a Starbucks for a coffee and a muffin and then came back and got the car a...

SUNDAYHad to be waiting outside the hotel at 6.45am for our trip to Yosemite National Park and we were duly picked up by a small van which we thought would be a shuttle to a coach. Oh Oh!! Wrong! This was our transport!! The tour information said small groups but we thought it might at least have been a bit more luxurious. We 13 of us were squashed into it and the 4 of us were jammed into the back row. The steam was coming out of my ears by the time we had gone 5...