So thisis the blog for San Fran and LA! We actually had 2 stays in San Fran, 6 nights in total with the Green Tortoise trips dividing them. Our 1st stay we arrived really early due to our flight from Las Vegas being at 7am!! We dumped our bags in the hostel and then set off to explore San Fran. It was so refreshing having to wear a jacket as it was windy! Having come from Vegas, this weather was more like being back home in England! Lovely! So we walked around f...

So no longer had we arrived back in San Fran we were getting ready to set off on our 9 night Northern Pioneer trip visiting the National Parks of the North and West. We had a sleep in the hostel and showered and rested and then met back at the same place as the other trip at 7pm this time. We were tired and the thought of having to be sociable with a new different group of people was tiring in itself!! We got on with this lad from Newcastle, David, straight away...

We’ve decided to put all of the San Francisco blog and photos together so Yosemite is first!! So we had to meet at the bus stop place at 8.30pm on Monday night so we had a nice relaxing day and headed down there as it was getting dark. We arrived and to be honest it looked a bit dodgy down a side street, anyway there were loads of people there so we thought there must be a few buses going as we were told there would only be 10-15 people on the tour that we wer...