We needed to head north in order to get to the Burning Man Festival. The original plan was to head to the coast and then follow it up. After the zillionth traffic light at each block junction the freeway sign had greater appeal.The freeway (5) took us up to 4000ft on some barley coloured mountains before dropping down to oil country. The blog picture shows the nodding donkeys with a sign saying no shooting (so American).With LA far behind we cut over to the coast...

Dead Liz taken at 3pm when I went out to get emergency crisps (Liz's hangover cure) - that about sums up the day.

Rent a wreck is the marketing name, but they spend even more money to say that they are not wrecks. Well our wreck was a Nissan, by the time they got the illegal tyre changed it was too late to go anywhere. Instead we headed to Hollywood. Divine inspiration played a part in the navigation. The driving was scary - 7 lane freeways, trying to turn left across 4 lanes of traffic was not my idea of getting used to driving on the wrong side of the road. We did get the...

Ground hog day! We are going to experience 25th August twice as we are going over the international date line. Despite a 12hour flight we are getting there 7 hours before we set off -let's hope it is a good un. LAZ airport is a nightmare, it took probally two hours to get out of the airport. Security measures include retinar scan and finger print checks in addition to all the other measures that they have put in place. The hassles did not stop here, we waited f...