Austin Greeted by a very friendly character - scooter. He welcomed us with crepes and pizza. 29th- Slept in late, walked towards downtown after scooter cooked us "egg n eye" - yummy! Then had some tacos at a trailer park eatery, lots of vintage and cowboy shops. Arrived in Flagstaff on the 31st after 28 hours on the bus! Hostel provides free tea - yay! 1st November - Woke up 7am, saw it was a nice clear day got our flip flops and t shirts on went ou...

12th Arrived in downtown LA about 6pm after our last Greyound journey ever! Hell Yeah! Downtown is apparently dodge city and not too nice so jumped stright into a cab to Hollywood! Stayed at USA hostels which is all rules, rules, rules kinda felt like school. 13th Over slept, Phin (Chicago friend) had come to meet us, arranged to meet him after doing hollywood boulevard. On the way to meet Phin we bumped into Bret from Flight of the Conchords!! TOTES starstruc...

Arrived at 8ish am, got to the hostel which smelt strongly of wee and office wasn't open..We didn't want to stay here, so just checkin in for 1 night. went to public library to try and find another hostel on computors, sat next to a gentleman who also smelt bad.. grunting, and blatently watching some pretty graphic porn...awkward... booked a different hostel, better location. 8th - Checed in to union square backpackers hostel, down a dodge alley, wierd front des...

3rd - We had been driving for ages in the deserty darkness we came over a big hill and saw a sea of lights which seemed to go on forever - very pretty. Exciting walking down Fremopnt St to our hostel - stages with rock music, massive roof tellies and zip slides! Saw Andy and Simon at the hostel yay! Went around the FRemont experience and into a casino, Hugh gambled a whole 2 dollars away! 4th - Explored the strip, went in pretty much every casino. Bellagio fount...

Arrived in New Orleans, met two guys from brighton called Andy & Simon, all trying to find the marquette hostel. wearrived at the bed bug infested rusty smelly wierd place, luckily the ngiht before a lady in Nashville warned us about the Marquette and told us to stay at the india house so we booked 3 nights there after staying in the Marquette.. *shudders* Next day arrived at India House hostel, was much nicer &with a pool! that night popped out for some...