Hi Everyone! We just realised that we can mark exactly (ie. the street) where we are staying on the map on this site, you just have to zoom in to see it (in case anyone cares!). So New York: Tracey and Michael were fantastic hosts and have a great apartment in Lower Manhattan with views spanning the city, the Hudson River and New Jersey. From their place we took the subway to wherever we needed to go. The subway is what suprised us most about New York. We though...

Hi everyone, Wow, what a place. America so far has been big cars, big buildings, big food, big personalities, big highways, and so far has met our big expectations. We have been in LA for the past 4 days, and seen many interesting places and met some very interesting people. Firstly our biggest challenge was learning how to drive on the wrong side of the road, plus trying to find our way from LA airport to Santa Monica. Santa Monica was a nice place, cl...