The last blog I wrote, we had just arrived in Palm Springs. We've been super busy since, hence the lack of entry. I'll start where I left off... That night in Palm Springs was a lot of fun. We stayed up late eating take away pizza, watching the VMAs and then swimming in the heated pool. The little Travelodge we were in was very cute and the old couple that owned it seemed to take a liking to us by keeping the pool open later than usual and helping us out...

Even with our good intentions of an early night and an early morning, we still managed to over sleep on our last day in Vegas and didn't get out of the room until 12! Bearing in mind that we had a 4 1/2 hour drive to the Grand Canyon. Ooops! We decided that we'd stay in Flagstaff so that we could do sunset at the canyon that night then go back the next day. On our way to the Grand Canyon we spotted a place called 'Bearizona' which was a drive through zoo so w...

Quick update - We've spent most of our day times in Vegas sleeping by the pool at our hotel. We've had a couple of nights out but we've also been trying to watch our pennies, although it's been really difficult! Sunday night was dueling pianos, Monday night we had a few too many drinks and made some friends by the pool (they ended up buying us dinner and shots for the rest of the night!), Tuesday night we walked up las Vegas strip and had a hot dog (feeling ...

So after the disappointment of not being able to stay in Yosemite once we had seen how amazing it was then having to drive for hours with nothing around but trees and road, we were both feeling a bit deflated and contemplated bringing our flight to Hawaii forward (so defeatist). The drive that night was scary as we were running out of fuel and there was just absolutely nothing for miles and miles! We turned down one road that had a sign for a hostel and we were ...

quick update! So yesterday we checked out of our hotel in San Fran, did our washing at the laundromat then went to pick up the car. They only needed the paper part of our license so all of our worrying was irrelevant! I was absolutely terrified about following a map and not using a sat nav but we did it!!! And we didn't get lost. The ride was amazing with beautiful views and we got to Yosemite in about 4 hours. Problem was, there was nowhere to stay! We arr...