We left San Francisco for the interesting town of Sacramento which was a stop off for our journey to Yosemite and also a place where I had seen a man vs food challenge I wanted to attempt. The task was 5 hot dogs , half a kilo of chilli and a kilo of fries. Unfortunately my planning hadn't been great and the cafe was shut when we arrived. Instead we just had the standard American meal of a huge burger and loads of fries.. The next day we drove to the town of Mar...

We arrived into LAX airport feeling a big jaded from the delays and repeated security controls, and also because a woman had mistaken me for the mother of 3 teenage girls... time to up the anti-wrinkle cream dosage I think. As we waited to collect our bags we noticed someone we vaguely recognised. It was none other than my brother, Rich. What a councidence! It seems he had been so blown away by our blog he decided to be part of it. The 3 of us went off to pick ...

We arrived in Mexico keen to do some sunbathing and get stuck into some Mexican food. After an extremely long wait to get ours bags (due to flights from Panama to Mexico being a well known drugs route). We finally got to Playa del Carmen and walked to our hotel only to be told our room wasn't available and we were being moved hotels. After our initial annoyance we found the new hotel was in a better location and the room a slight upgrade so we were satisfied. On...

After a short flight we landed in Lima, our final destination on this part of the trip. We hadn't heard great things from others about the place so weren't expecting too much. We choose a hostel in the Miraflores area, which we found to be really nice. We went for long walks around the area enjoying the nice weather and watched the hand gliders and surfers from the cliff front. We also enjoyed good food in Lima as well as visiting the local cinema and a modern s...

On the way to Cusco we needed to switch buses in Puno, which is on the northern shore of Lake Titicaca, just a few hours from where we've been. We get off the bus expecting to get straight onto the next bus to be told there is a strike on a stretch of road a few hours away and we won't be able to leave for Cusco until tomorrow. This slightly hinders our plans but as we don't really have another option, us and 4 other travellers follow this 'helpful' man who we su...