From Cisco we got on a shuttle for an 8-hour journey to Hollywood for a few days! We were on the shuttle with 3 English girls who had all been travelling America for the summer after finishing uni! They were all coming to the end of their trip and were also spending only a couple of days in Hollywood! We arrived in Hollywood and our hostel was right next to Hollywood Boulevard, the world famous street with all the stars on! We all got showered following our long ...

A couple of days later we got ourselves out of Vegas, thank god! And had a 16 hour coach journey on the Greyhound to San Francisco, the journey was a killer and we chose to do it overnight, was quite an experience being woken up at 4am when the bus was pulled over by the police checking for illegal immigrants! There turned out to be 2 of them on our coach!!! We arrived in Cisco and checked into our hostel, straight away we felt so much better being there! I loved...

we were actually doing it! We pulled up at our hostel, checked into our room and sat there not quite sure just what to do or what we’d let ourselves in for!!! The hostel we’re staying in was in the dodgy area of town, and we saw 2 cop cars within an hour of being there!!! After ringing home and Louise to let them know we’re safe, unpacking a few bits and getting freshened up we went out for our first exploration of Vegas! We walked so far that a...