Yosemite Awakening in the luxury surroundings of Yosemite Bug it was very difficult to get up and moving both of us were very tired Ah I hear you cry you have 12 months off whats the matter with you! Well we were so there. First job sort out where we were staying that night we were having real difficulty of finding accomodation near Yosemite eventually we found a room in Merced about 70 miles outside Yosemite and actually further away than we were at that moment....

After a somewhat sleepless night in Visalia and a morning spent dealing with admin relating to the flat, we were on the road at the somewhat late time of 1pm. We had a long day ahead of us heading north towards the Sequoia National Park and Kings Canyon our ultimate destination. Driving in the US takes some getting used to mainly driving on the wrong side of the road and its just so bl##dy big. Looking at the map we didnt think we had to far to go before we would...

Destination 12 - California and Nevada of the good ole USA! After 2 days wait/cancelled flights, move to another airline, lightening strike to the plane,12 and a hallf hours flight, plus 1.5 hours sat on the runway...........we finally landed in LA! Thank god for valium thats all I can say, what a journey it was to get here! Flying into LA was a constrast in itself, compared to the underpopulated, remote and rural NZ, it looked massive and went on for miles, wher...