Today we left the beautiful Yosemite National Park behind and headed for San Francisco. The last destination on our Contiki Tour. Took us about 5 hrs to hit the city, where we headed down to the Pier Precinct for Lunch. My group ate at this really cool Sourdough bakery restaurant. Big beautiful restaurant inside the factory that freshly bakes a variety of breads and sourdough. Following lunch it was back to the bus for a city tour. Within minutes I totally fel...

After everything that was Las Vegas we hit the road for the longest drive of our trip to Bass Lake, within the Yosemite National Park. I cant really tell you much about the drive. We all slept most of it, and by the time we awoke nearing Yosemite it was too dark to see anything. Accomodation at Bass Lake Lodge was different to our previous setups. Here we stayed in self contained cabins that slept 4. Within minutes of getting to my room I learnt that we were th...

Day 2 in Vegas was always going to be the day that took the biggest toll on your body. As many people were still straggling home as the sun rose, and just wanted to crash into bed. You can sleep when your dead right. This is Vegas Baby. Have a shower put on some fresh threads and get out there and do It again. Most of us were back on the strip by 10am explore the world of overwhelming extravagance. My group jumped the bus and headed out to the famous factory ou...

Leaving the Grand Canyon today it was a fairly long bus ride to the most anticipated location. Las Vegas Baby! Honestly you have not seen 43 grown adults literally jumping out of their skin with excitement on a bus for 7hrs. Was quite funny. As you see and believe it is pretty accurate. Your literally driving through the desert. Then slowly you come across some rural properties, then you hit the surrounding suburbs then, bang your in the middle of this giant o...

Today is considered to be the Scenic highlight of the Trip. Ill be honest with you I was always very sceptical of the Grand Canyon. My nieve idea was that it would just be a big boring valley. I had some friends that had informed my otherwise. But truthfully if my tour wasn't going there already I probably wouldn't have made the effort to get out there myself. But in true Contiki spirit I got behing it, listened to all the Hype about these Helicopter Flights, s...