S: We arrived and headed to a hostel and got settled and then headed out to breakfast. The guys had a massive fruit salad and although I was feeling better, I had eggs lol. We wandered around and eventually found the two treks we wanted to do for the right price with a chap names Joél. James cooked a stir fry to save money as the treks were quite expensive. We visited the church and the cathedral. The cathedral was impressive with a new organ being built in 20...

S: So, we got our first bus in a few months. It wasn't quite like we were used to..... It had really comfy seats and we were served food and drinks. We found our hostel that included a pool, this is a new style of travelling lol. We were all ready to go sand boarding, first we had to climb into a massive buggy that had been modified for the job and off we go. I think the driver was a little loco (crazy) as he was speeding up and down the sand dunes with no fear...

J: We left San Fran behind and headed to the airport early, we arrived at midnight for our 7am flight as we thought it would save costs on a room for the night and we slept in the airport. Oddly we flew via Miami to Peru as somehow this was cheaper. As we arrived late we had arranged a hostel room including a chauffeur and we had a little man standing at the arrivals with "Keeler" written on a board, this was a first for us and we felt a little famous. As we st...

S: After a quick drive to San Francisco, and dropping our bags off at the hostel followed by the car, we headed into the city. We walked towards the piers and ended up finding a farmer's market, where we had the most amazing pork roll and roast potatoes. After that we headed towards the Alcatraz pier, I was soo excited to be going as this had been planned for months. I'm fascinated by the whole concept of the prison and the island. We bordered the boat for the...

S: Our next plan was to visit Yosemite, but after driving 8 hours we decided that the weather was too bad to go there and the fact we didn't have snow chains in the car might have made the decision. As it was such a long drive, we caught up with the blog as we have been a little lax lately. The scenery we were passing through was amazing to look at - snow-capped mountains on one side and desert the other. I never expected to be seeing such a contrast down one r...