Day 26/27/28 - Downtown LA/Over the Pacific/SydneyWell today is the day of the massive 15 hour flight to Sydney. The flight isn't till 10:30pm so we have a full day to kill, we have a bit of a lie in as we're not gonna get much sleep later. we head out for some breakfast/dinner when we do eventualy get up and then check out but decide to stay in the hotel and research our Oz trip and also decide what we're doing when we get to Bali.Eventualy we decide we're bore...

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 .. ...