Day 25 - Downtown Los AngelesSi seems to be against having a lie in at the moment and wakes me up whilst getting his shower stuff ready (i'm going to start drugging him with sleeping pills). We both get cleaned up and head down to the coffee shop thats joined onto the hotel for breakfast before starting another day of planning for our next leg of the trip.We have pretty much sorted all of our trip for Australia, where we want to go and how long we will be spendi...

Day 24 - Downtown Los Angeles9AM and we're woken by an old Mexican guy trying to come in shouting "House Keeping?!" despite me saying "No Thanks" he continues shouting "House keeping?!" Rho shouts "NO THANKS" and he says "oooh" and shuts the door, haha crazy Mexicans! Anyways we head out for brekky and decide to spend the day booking stuff for the 2nd part of our trip in Oz. Most of the day is spent researching an...

Day 23 - San Francisco/Downtown Los Angeles The day begins bright and early (6am!) so we can get ready, get checked out and jump in a taxi to the coach station for our mammoth 7 hour + ride to downtown LA.We only have 3 stops 1 in Oakland, Chamamunga and North Hollywood before we finally arrive in LA. The 1st bit is ok as it goes pretty quick, the landscape all through California North to South is very similar, lots of Brown fields, Brown mountains and Orange/Fr...

Day 22 - San FranciscoWe get up bright and early and head down to Pier 33 which is where the Alcatraz tours depart from. The tours are all sold out on line but we figured we may as well try and get them from the actual pier when it first opens. Unfortunately they are sold out until next Wednesday and since we wont even be in America then we have to give it a miss.We grab some breakfast on the pier 39 and I convince Si we should go and see the sealions again .. ...

Day 21 - San FranciscoAnother lie in (I could get used to this) we grab some brekkie and head back to the hotel to get picked up for the Winchester Mystery House trip.We wait in the hotel lobby for quite some time and no tour bus shows up! The numbers for the tour company either dont connect or ring out and they're not too quick at responding to emails! Not impressed Si sends them a sternly worded email. (FYI dont use Viator for any trips when you are abroad)Not ...