Los Angeles, the home stretch! After extending the stay an extra night in San Diego we eventually arrived in the city of celebrities on Saturday evening to spend the final 4 days of our trip. As our initials plans had been altered a tad to allow for Halloween in San Diego and our initial accommodation being cancelled as a consequence, we soon found ourselves in the dilemma of being in one of the biggest, most populated cities in the world with nowhere to stay. Al...

San Diego, which of course in German means a whales v ... never mind. After three large days & nights in Las Vegas we were all very happy to be chilling out for a week back in southern California, and even more excited at the chance of catching up with Spencer, Chelsea, Vanessa and Susie who we had met over our university careers through their exchange semesters at Macquarie. To date on this trip, we have experienced hostels, apartments, hotel rooms, B&B'...

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...

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...