Hit the road about 9am heading to Reno. First part of the trip is through the Central Valley farming area up through Fresno and Sacramento. This part of the drive was very flat straight and boring. Most of the way was fruit type farming, pomegranates, strawberries, apples, grapes, pistachios, oranges, blah blah. It was only after Sacramento that it got interesting. Just past Sacramento we stopped at Denny's for lunch. Denny's is a massive chain of Diners over he...

Up early and we head downtown for breakfast. Found a cafe/bar called pinocchio's. Looked very busy so must be good. Once we ordered we noticed that all the people near us had champagne (note 10 am on a Sunday morning). They have an unlimited champagne with breakfast option for $3.95. We should have stayed here another day so we could sample this offer. On the way out of Palm Springs we took Eileen (Karens mum) up to see the Mt San Jacinto Cable Car. It goes from ...

Woke up day two ready to head to Cabazon and the Desert Hills Premium Factory Outlets. Had a few problems with the GPS on the iPhone while trying navigate out of LA, I should have realised it was like Microsoft and rebooted it straight away and problem fixed. Time to buy a cheap one for here it think. Hit the LA freeways in the direction of palm springs. Driving on the freeways while getting accustomed to left hand drive is interesting. An hour and a half later ...

Heading to LA As the LA plane was flying out of Melbourne early we decided to fly to Melbourne from Canberra the night before. We had booked an upgrade to business class using frequent flyer points but they advised they wont allocate until 5 hours before the flight. We found out at 7pm that we had been upgraded. I really don't look forward to the cattle class on long haul flights even though the A380 is better for room than the 747, so was very pleased with the ...