Day 3 - 10th Jan leaving chapping hostel and onto Hollywood. This was the most hectic day that we had so far, and also the first day we had some real traveling whilst lugging our backpacks about! Hard is a bit of an understatement! Trying to get from Venice Beach to Hollywood wasn't as easy as we thought it would be, and the bus experience was not pleasant! We knew that Americans were crazy but I think the buses are where all these oddbods congregate, to harass n...

Day 2 9th Jan Began the day by doing a bit more exploring and this was much more due to the fact we were all starving then wanting to get to know the surroundings! After the much needed food, which was classic American portions, meaning that a severe amount of walking was needed over the rest of the day, we navigated the local bus system successfully and made our way to Santa Monica. Complete change from Venice Beach, was really clean and didnt have a hint of w...

Day 1 - 8th Jan So, we are finally away! First blog entry has taken a while to come, so have lots to update! First Day away was an eventful day all round, had a surprisingly emotional send off at the airport. I suppose I didn't expect so many people to be sending us off; they were probably making sure that we were actually going! As usual we don't really do anything typically and backpacking is the same, we managed to get upgraded through Murden's connections s...

Day 5 - Hollywood again! Was a bit of a mission today, decided to use our tour bus tickets as much as we could although this turned out to be quite annoying as we had to listen to the same description as we went around Hollywood as we had heard the previous day! By the end of the tour we could recite the tours ourselves. Once at the Chinese theatre we got off and got to have a better look around, seeing all the hand and foot prints of the stars! Went for lunch in...