Howdy, last time we spoke we were boarding a bus to Santa Cruz. Turns out that the Greyhound buses are not nearly as nice here as they are down under. It wasn't awful but was pretty long and we had to change buses in LA, San Jose and Santa Cruz before our local bus to Ben Lomond where the farm is. On the first bus to LA for example, we were sat directly behind a morbidly obese smoker with loud breathing difficulties and multiple bags of crisps. She was the Am...

Well I've got a heavy burden to carry! A lot has gone on since we last had a chance to blog, and there is a lot to tell, so I'll just have to try to summarise ... uh oh!When we last wrote, we were in Nelson, New Zealand, and it was about a week before Christmas. Since then we have travelled the north island of New Zealand, had a ridiculous couple of weeks in Fiji, and have now spent a week in California. So let's start at the very beginning ...New Zealand -- t...