Well here we are in NYC right at the end of our tour - for those of you still reading(!) this will probably be our last blog as we leave for home tmw.So we got here last Sunday and spent Monday and Tuesday being tourists. Monday the weather was rather terrible so we had no choice but to hit a museum. Spent a few hours in MOMA in uptown and had a nice time looking at all the modern collections. Luckily when we came out the rain had eased so we decided to have a wa...

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're actually not in Las Vegas right now - we're in a place called Lone Pine near to Death Valley but we had to have a journal entry from the entertainment capital of the world!!! On the way to Vegas we made sure that we went on Route 66 (for all of about 5 miles!) and got a photo. We spent three nights in Vegas and had an awesome time. Think we covered almost every single one of the major casinos on the strip. Didn't gamble in all of them but each one was ...