After 7 months, 3 continents and 10 countries, we're home. We've done almost 39,000 miles; 24,000 in the air and almost 15,000 overland, and travelled by bus, train, boat, plane, speedboat, jetski, motorbike, bicycle, car and kayak. We've seen beaches, deserts, jungle, rainforest, mountains, swamp and waterfalls and slept in tents, hostels, hotels, guesthouses, boats, campervans, buses and anywhere else that was necessary! We've met some fascinati...

After an overnight bus trip from Toronto, crossing the border into America at midnight, we arrived in NYC again at 8am. We had all our bags with us and about 7 hours to spare before we had to get to the airport. Spent most of the day at Battery Park sat in the sunshine waiting for Dan - he went on the boat to see the statue of liberty, and I stayed with the bags trying to get my head round the fact it was the last day of our trip....We got to the airport abo...

Dan and I got the train into Toronto and spent the day there. Its a really lovely city, quite laid back. We walked down to the St Lawrence Market and around that area, which is the old town. The market had an amazing sleection of fish and seafood and cheeses and meats and two fantastic delis. We went into an antique light shop and got accosted by the uber camp owner who showed us everything in the shop and told us its history. He restores old lights an...

Drove for about two hours to get to Niagara this morning. The place wasn't quite what I expected, thought it would be a quiet little place with a big waterfall. Its actually got loads of hotels and casinos and kids rides and stuff! Its very tacky and slightly crazy, but once you get past that and see the main attraction it doesn't matter. We went on the maid of the Mist, which is the boat that takes you past the American side (small and rubbish!) and into t...

Arrived in Toronto early on Thursday morning, after catching the overnight bus from New York and crossing the border at stupid o'clock. We didn't have any Canadian money, and thanks to me we had no cash card to get any out of the ATM...... So we had to wait until 9.30am to change some US currency at a bank. We then got a double decker GO train along the east lakeshore (Lake Ontario) route to Whitby, where Val, Emma and Mitchell picked us up. When you l...