We arrived in San Francisco in the evening after over 8 hours on the bus. It wasn't the most ideal way to travel but we survived being the hard core travellers that we are! Our hotel was in a good location, right near Union Square. It wasn't great accomodation but it was far better than some places we've stayed. Our LA hotel was so nice, we think it spoilt us a bit. We booked an Alcatraz island trip as that was one of the main reasons we wanted to come here and w...

Our second week in LA wasn't as jammed packed as our first, it was nice to have the time to just chill and people watch. People watching in Hollywood is like nowhere else in the world! We were staying in a really good location was good to be able to walk right along Hollywood Boulevard and have a look around a few shops of course! There were two days of heavy rain, which we were told was really unusual for LA and it was on the news they were concerned about mud s...

We arrived in LA just before 12pm on 8th March, meaning we were living the day again as we had gone back by 18 hours! We got to our hotel (which was really nice) and set about organising the rest of our trip. We had some flights already booked and hotels had been reserved but we wanted to see if we could go home a bit earlier, money is getting tighter the closer we get to the end! But we still wanted to go to all the places we planned so we were looking to bring ...