After a (very) late start on our final day in Vegas we set off for San Diego. It was a long and quiet drive after the night before but we eventually arrived. We went out for a lovely last meal with Rich and some drinks. The dinner was especially memorable for a few customers joining in with the local singer before one of them shouted 'the drinks are on me'. We all got excited at this but unfortunately it seemed to be a joke. The bar Rich took us to was another qu...

The next stop on our trip was Sin City. If you're looking for cultural insights into our trip, then stop reading now. As you can imagine Vegas was 4 days of drinking, gambling and partying. After our trip into the wilderness this was just what we needed! I don't think anything could have prepared us for just how crazy Vegas is. The 'Wild Wild West' (our budget accommodation off the strip) even had a casino which made a post-breakfast flutter a bit too easy. Eve...

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 ...