Day 14- If yesterday was quiet, today was a mute. We got up late for our midday check out and hit the road for our airport hotel in LA. got stuck in a bloody traffic jam for bout an hour leaving San Fran which is ridiculous as was lunch time, still can't understand how so many people can be on the roads ALL THE TIME over here! Get jobs people. Anyways finally got on the highway with a couple of stops for lunch and pee stops, Mrs McPhee surprised everyone managin...

Day 11- Pretty casual day today, got up bright and early at 6 am and hit the road for San Fran, the GPS said it was a 10hr trip! We stopped for brekky at a nice healthy petrol station for jack in the box! Back on the road again there wasn't much to see, the country side changed pretty quickly from the desert the rolling green hills of the west coast again, actually looked a lot like NZ. The highways are pretty unreal you can cruise at 130km/hr and with 2 lanes y...

Day 7- Up super early this morn, 5.30am Arizona time which unfort meant 4.30am LA and Las Vegas time. Checked out and Drove to the Grand Canyon to catch the 6.30am bus to Yoka point to watch the sunrise was absolutely stunning views and quite hard to take it all in, amazing sight for a big ditch. After the sunrise we then walked from the visitors centre west along the southern rim a couple hours. From there we caught another bus that took us as far as you can go...

Day 1 - Today we flew out from Brisbane at 11.30am and landed in LA AT 6am the same day. We didn't get much sleep on the plane as it was too noisy and excitement levels were high! Once we landed the line for customs was huge and Emma got grilled by the customs guy about how much money she had! We went from there to the rental car shuttles to go pick up the car, got a nice wee 4 door ford fiesta, VERY strange driving on left side of car and right side of the r...