Having left Ridgecrest early in the morning we began our journey across the Sierra Nevada mountain range to Fresno. After a twisty and windy but extremely beautiful drive across the mountains we arrived late in the afternoon in Fresno, where we stopped over for the night. The next day it was only a short drive to Yosemite National Park, where we were shocked to find snow and below-freezing temperatures, in comparison to the glorious sunshine we had experienced th...

Having found it difficult to find accommodation in the Grand Canyon, we found it even harder to find anything in or around Death Valley, as unknown to us at the time it was their busiest time of year! We eventually found a motel in a town called Ridgecrest and getting there involved a very boring drive along Highway 40 (a very very straight road which seemed to go on forever!) across the Arizona border and back into California. Ridgcrest, although convenient, did...

Having spent 3 hours the previous day trying to find affordable accomodation in the Grand Canyon, we soon found that with it being the start of spring and also spring break (Woohoo!) everything was fully booked for miles around, and the only rooms we could find in the vicinity were very expensive! So we ended up getting the last room at a motel6 in the small town of Williams, an hour south of the Canyon. Setting off from Vegas we took Highway 90 towards Boulder C...

Vegas Baby! Our hostel acutally turned out to be a motel with some rooms turned into dorm rooms, but it kinda worked and meant we could stay on the Strip for cheap! For our first evening we headed off to see the Freemont Street experience which has the largest TV screen/roof in the world where there is a light show every night! We wandered around and even went into a few of the casinos, though being poor as we are after 5 months on the road there was no gambling!...

Road Trip: San Diego to Las Vegas (via Palm Springs!) From San Diego we had a 2-day road trip across the desert to Vegas (baby!). Once we had left San Diego we headed north back in the general direction of LA before turning and heading east into the desert. We decided to stop off overnight at the somewhat posh desert city of Palm Springs. As this isn't a hostel-type town (its mainly posh spa's and hotels!) we stayed in the first of several motels (Motel6) on thi...