Welcome Back! After our month off home in Australia, we're on our way back to the States to finish what we started... So far we've visited 43 States, which leaves only New Mexico (44), Texas (45), Oklahoma (46), and Arkansas (47) left for us to complete our tour. Unfortunately we miss out on Rhode Island, Kentucky (this was a technical blunder as we were less than 20 miles from the border at one stage!), and Alaska, which would've made 50. Nevertheless, this ti...

We were up at 6am 'cause Will had organized for us to go to school with him. The LA County Fair was on and we were summoned to be chaperones for his Grade 7 students at the fair. We had an awesome time at the fair getting a taste of a good 'ol county fair! We learnt how to lasso a steer, make rope, tried cheese fries, and we even got fresh choc milk from a chocolate milk cow. Amazin'. The fair took up the best part of the day, but in the evening we decided we wo...

We arrived in Los Angeles from Sydney around 3pm after a scheduled 4hr stop-over in New Zealand. The 4hr wait in Auckland airport was fairly dull, but it made the rest of the trip pretty sweet as it was only a 10hr flight on thru to LA from there. As we disembarked the jumbo we prepared for questioning at immigration and customs. The 42 boxes of Avondale pens that were spread throughout our luggage sparked a bit of interest from the customs officials, but after a...