So we spent a couple of days in the sunshine in Santa Barbara. Really nice place with a good beach and pier and plenty of shops to keep Ele amused. We had a look around the courthouse in the centre of town and went up its clock tower for a good view of the area. We then moved onto Santa Monica which is basically part of LA. Spent the first day down on the beach where we hired a couple of choppers (a type of three wheeled bike) and cruised down to Venice beach wh...

After a lovely couple of days of wine tasting in the?Napa Valley (mmmm Mumm) we moved on to San Francisco. We were staying in a great location - a hostel right off Union Square. Spent our first day exploring Union Square before going to a baseball game in the evening - Giants vs Houston. Giants won yey!!!Next day we went and spent some time behind bars at Alcatraz - quite an eery place - met an actual in mate as well!!! Then we explored Fishermans Wharf and saw t...

Hey all! Time for another brief update......We've been pretty busy the last few days. After Vegas and Death Valley we got to Yosemite National Park. The scenery was absolutely beautiful (we're starting to sound old!) but really was spectacular. On the first day we travelled through the Tioga Pass at about 10,000ft. There was snow on the mountains and a great big frozen lake which was pretty cool. Travelled across Yosemite valley seeing lots of cool stuff on the w...

So we reached the US mainland last Sunday and spent the first night just in a hotel near to LAX. We then picked up our car on Monday - a lovely Hyundai for those interested and headed down to Orange County. We spent the day on the beach and exploring Newport and Laguna Beach. Ele was massively excited when she saw a house of a star from the Laguna Beach T.V. program - don't ask me!!! No Penfold trip would be complete without a trip to Disney, so having appare...