Greetings from Savannah - the city of shrimp, or at least it seems so. We've decided to head south to get some good weather, as it was cold up north, so Florida's our next stop. As you can see we've finally cracked the laptop/wireless/internet technology, with many buckets of sweat and tears, but its working! We've just topped a thousand miles in the van, and are wearing it in nicely, although we're still regularly cracking our heads on the overhead bunk. ...

Hello everyone, We've finally arrived on the first leg of our trip. Its not been totally plain sailing so far, some predictable problems (josh breaking his mobile phone and Louise forgetting the address of George's appartment where we were spending the first night) and some technical hitches (extremely laid back van hire company who kept saying it would be ready in a couple of hours, but in fact it took two days!, oh and we forgot our plug converter for th...

OH NO!! We've broken down. After 9,000 miles, he's finally given up on us and totally seized up with a catastrophic oil leak. We feel bad. Well, at least until our shiny new van turns up (that was 3 days later though). Vrmmmm, vrrrmm - Dude is dead, long live Dude Junior!

Howdy folks Been in New Zealand for a week or so now. Heard the news about the bombings whilst in the nay of islands. Sounded pretty nightmarish but I guess not entirely unexpected. Things have been fairly relaxed over here. The Lions are officially rubbish but have made it back down to Auckland to join the barmy army in revelling in our undoubted defeat. Spent a few days in the northlands (north of Auckland) where is has been mostly raining. Was p...