So after a day chilling by the pool listening to some classic 70's tunes drinking cheap American beers I decided to hit Venice beach with Becky and Jack. They're two Brits on their way home from travelling the globe. Very cool guys. Also enter "Doug".... A country American from New Orleans (another singer song writer) hoping to make it big in L.A. "In two months time I'm going to be the biggest guitar player this world has ever seen" and "I won't have to worry...

No time for breakfast this morning I'm checking out as I've got a train to catch. My alarm went off at 7:00am and caught a cab down to the clock tower on the dock (made sure I had the right money this time). I'm catching the Starlight Pacific Train down to LA. The guy in the Amtrak office refers to it as "The finest train ride in the universe". He then laughed saying "Well they ain't discovered any other train rides on any other planet yet." I find my seat ...

A Monday afternoon about 18degrees and I'm back in San Fran. This time a different part of town. I'm staying Downtown near union square and I've just pulled up a chair to take in the biggest Christmas tree I've ever seen. Decorated with red and gold baubles it just looks class. I got a lift back up to San Fran with Jim. www.jimfield.co.uk totally blown away by his work. He showed me some proofs he had back from the printers of his new children's book. Absolute...

After a 3 and a half hour drive through the centre of Yosemite climbing to around 11,000ft, tioga pass boasted some of the most incredible mountain landscape I've ever seen. From snow canyons to vast forests to waterfalls and then Barron desert, we quite literally run out of road. "Aaaaarrrrgghhhhhh" Jim's doing about 40 and then the Tarmac runs out. The wheels smash into the rocky path signposted to bodie town, we're definitely off the beaten track now. It t...

It's deer o'clock. So today I went to Wayoma with Valle, Jim and Christian to explore the home of the giant sequoias. It's so peaceful here, the silence is almost eery, not even the wind dares to bother this ancient place. The odd woodpecker breaks the silence bent on hammering the bark in search of a treat. It's a very tranquil place. The trunks are at least the size of a bus wide and seem to go on forever high up over head towering up like a forest of gen...