Viva Las Vegas, aka Viva lost wages! A long strip of bright flashing lights situated in the middle of nowhere in Nevada, yet attracts people of all ages and nationalities from around the world. People who bring their paycheques and, more often than not, leave in debt. Landing in the Nevada town, we must have looked like a bunch of kids who have just visited a candy store for the first time in their lives, we were that excited, especially because it was all of our...

After a brief fortnight visit to Mexico, it was back to the US, this time scaling along the west coast of the country in California. The first stop; San Francisco. It was here that we would re-meet Britt from Miami, and Righton was to join up with us for the remainder of the trip. Arriving on a Saturday afternoon, it was a rude shock being hit with the significant temperature drop from what we had become accustomed to in Mexico over the past two weeks. In fact, i...

The second of the two Mexican weeks required a plane trip across to the east side of the country to the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula in Cabo San Lucas. Reuniting here with the boys, it was another luxury stay in the beachfront resort of ME Cabo Hotel, however, it was here that we got a much greater taste of the Mexican culture and lifestyle. The first reason being the food. Small street stalls and shacks all served up cheap, yet very tasty Mexica...

With the boys remaining in Miami an additional two nights to witness an NFL game, I decided to shoot down to Mexico for an extra week to pay a visit to the Caribbean coastline destination of Cancun. Hardly the party atmosphere that you'd expect from seeing the movie, 'The Real Cancun', yet you could hardly complain about the warm, sunny weather and turquoise blue waters that was produced each day ... so much for the so called 'hurricane season'. Cancun seems to b...

Our second stop on the American itinerary was the glitzy, glamorous city of South Beach, Miami. Upon arriving in a taxi from the airport, a few of us were confused as to whether we were actually at South Beach or Surfers Paradise on Australia´s Gold Coast, given the distinct similarities and characteristics of the two. A string of hotels along a coastline, one long open stretch of beach, an array of palm trees and constant warm, tropical weather pretty much sums...