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Hi allHave arrived in LA, well in Santa Monica about 30 mins ouside of hollywood. Really nice here lots of busy streets with shops bars and restaurants. Hostel is nice again got to go in a single sex dorm tonight but have a private room for the next 4 nights which is good.Went to Universal Studios for the day was amazing got to see where Jaws and Pirates of the Carribean were filmed and the sets are still there, got to go on the set of Desperate Housewives and sa...

 On the first night we arrived at 2 in the morning so we thought we would get a taxi we asked about 3 different taxis and none of them would take us to our street which was annoying but eventually someone did and realised it was only round the corner so thats was probably why nevermind we made it. Hostel was really nice again and the first day we were there we went to Balboa Park and went to the famous San Diego zoo where we saw koalas and Giant Pandas was g...

So we arrived in San Francisco and were taken to our hostel and we were staying in a 24 bed mixed dorm...yes i did say 24 bed dorm! It seemed like an ok idea at the time of booking it but it was awful loads of people snoring and really noisy so we upgraded for the next night they didnt have any more availability for our remaining 2 nights so we found a place nearer the main town which we also thought was a good idea at the time(ill come back to that in a min). Th...

We left Buffalo for our flight and we had to stop off in Chicago so the first flight was just to Chicago we boarded the plane and it was so small it felt like we were on a toy ride! It had one row of single seats and one row of 2 seats so it had about 30 people on all together. As we were on the toy plane i swore i thouht i saw our rucksacks being taken off the plane so i nudged Jono and told him and he told me not to be silly they wouldnt take our bags off so i ...