Saturday 18 May - Thursday 23 May San Francisco (Note to self: Don't lock your jackets in bag using cable ties...You wont be able to get it out when you arrive in San Fran airport late at night and the wind is exhaling fresh and you have nothing to cut cable ties with having just climbed off an airplane. Duh!) WOW - San Francisco - you lived up to my expectations and more! I could live here! Its bloody awesome! Apart from the cold wind that never stops blowi...

Monday 13 May - Friday 17 May Hawaii Five-Oh We left Australia at 6pm on Monday, crossed the international date line and arrived in Oahu, Hawaii at 9am on the same Monday - bonus - we gained a day! Waikiki Beach in Honolulu is as beautiful as the pictures you see on postcards. We spent 2 days there - swimming, hiking up Diamond Head crater, stepping over tramps asleep on the sidewalk, I was even turned down when offering an apple to a tramp digging in a dust...

Friday 3 May - Sunday 12 May Leaving Bahrain for Australia After a few hectic months of researching, organising, packing, goodbyes, disorganising and reorganising, we were finally ready to say goodbye to our adopted home of Bahrain. We have grown so much in the past six years, from buying a new jetski to a broken pelvis when I crashed it, we'd bought and sold our first dream house on the Floating City, adopted two street cats - Weasel & Pique, travelled t...