Once we were back in L.A. we took the metro to the airport where we picked up our white, sparkly, automatic Ford Focus. I was brave and took the first turn at the wheel; it was a little strange at first as I adjusted to being on the right side of the road and the left side of the car. The fact that it was an automatic made things a lot easier, even though I still kept trying to change gear via the car door. We drove out of L.A. and headed for the coast road....

We had an early bus from San Diego to Vegas as it was an 8 hour journey and we hoped to get there before dark. However, when we arrived at the bus station we were informed that our bus had been cancelled, but not worry as we had been transferred to an alternative. The alternative turned out to be going to Vegas via L.A.!! We got onto the bus hoping that we wouldn't be delayed too much......16 hours later we pulled into The Las Vegas greyhound station. After being...

From L.A. we caught a greyhound bus 3 hours south to San Diego. We arrived at 2pm and walked in the sun through the town to our hostel. San Diego was alot smaller and prettier than L.A. and had a wonderful mexican vibe to it. We checked into our 6 bed dorm and here we met Jake, he was from Seattlle and travelling America on his bike. Two Aussie girls we met in L.A., Kathryn and Siobhan, were also at the same hostel and so we started our stay with tacos and drink...

We landed in L.A. to lovely hot weather:-) Our hostel was just off Hollywood Boulevard so we walked straight out of the metro station and onto the Walk of Fame before we'd even had chance to put our bags down. We got to the hostel and enjoyed the BBQ they had on for that evening. The next day we we got the most important thing ticked off the list first....the Hollywood sign! We caught a bus and then walked up sereral steep streets to reach the sign. Amazingly it...

So after our fantastic time in Fiji we flew onto a week in Hawaii!! :-) As we are now nearing the end of trip we decided to save money and stay on the one island. We landed in Honolulu and caught a bus round to our hostel near Waikiki Beach. We spent our first couple of days on the beach, which was gorgeous but also very busy. It was strange to walk out of a big American city straight onto a tropical beach. In order to escape the busy crowds, on the third day w...