I travelled up to New York from Washington by bus which wasn't too bad, only took about 4.5 hours. When I arrived I met Mum, Richard and Ian at the hotel. Was really nice to see them after all this time. Didn't feel as if I last saw them almost 8 months ago though. We had a great time in New York, did all the touristy things. It was just sooooooooo cold though. They had had a huge snow storm just before we arrived and, although it didn't snow whilst we were ther...

After a long night flight from Las Vegas (stopping for a few hours in Houston, Texas) I finally arrived in Washington D.C. Washington is a nice city, but certainly not my favourite. It was interesting but the 3.5 days I had there were certainly enough. Compared with the climates I have been used to in the past 7.5 months aswel Washington felt very cold!!! I did all the touristy things: saw the White House, Lincoln Memorial, war memorials, National Monument, wal...

After a really good visit to San Francisco the next stop was Las Vegas. Well.....Las Vegas is another world, Disney Land for grown ups!!! The money that is present in that place is incredible!! All the lights along the strip.....every other car is a limo.....and then the amounts of money you see people gambling with, if I had had even one of their chips I could have paid for half of my whole trip!!! When you then see huge stacks of these chips piled up.....more m...

After leaving Fiji I headed to San Francisco. Was a slightly disorientating day. I left Fiji 11pm on the Saturday and I arrived at 5pm on Saturday. Flew for 16 odd hours and got my Saturday evening back. San Francisco has been great. I have spent lots of time walking around (all the many hills), I have ridden the historic cable car, I have walked around Pier 39, I have been to Alcatraz and I have biked the Golden Gate Bridge. Alcatraz was an interesting experie...