Good morning from the Catalina Islands and Happy July 4th! We tendered in early this morning, and just getting ready to head over to the Island in time to catch the golf cart parade!!! San Diego was fantastic, we checked out the San Diego Maritime museum and continued the ship theme by checking out pirate ships, one filmed in Master and Commander and boarded a real Soviet Sub from the war, amazing if a little clostraphobic! (I'll be amazed if I spelt that right...

As a look just past the computer screen sat aboard our cruise ship I can see San Diego! Just about to head out and check it out! Yesterday we boarded our luxury cruise liner and had settled into the joy in no time at all, within 30 mins we were sat on top deck with a bucket of Corona waiting to set sail, magic! We had a fantastic meal last night in the dining room to be entertained by singing waiters! Just had some smoked salmon for breaky, all very posh! Some se...

Wow, last night we decided to head out for a couple of beers...as we were leaving early the next morning... ;) Can you see where this is going... Civilised chatting about our trip, roll the clock on 2 hours later, we're stood on stage singing our hearts out to Maggi May playing air guitar with a load of screaming Irish girls we met...! Made the train too, though absolutely shattered. We arrived in Santa Monica this afternoon and after a check in that felt like ...

As I gaze down the side of my bed in Santa Barbara i notice the bull dog clip with my name and check out date, as I take a closer look it reads.... HARGIN EDWARDS.... For *%#$ $%@* What is it with my name! ;)As I have a little time on my hands I thought i'd tell a few interesting tales from the past week or so! One great story on the same lines as the above joke is - we met a girl from England she was hungry, went into a SubWay (A huge sandwitch chain he...

What a week, from camping in Yosemite, to the fantastic beach town of Santa Cruz to Santa Barbara, after the last long distance greyhound journey in the states we arrived in the beautiful Santa Barbara! We're right on the beach and this is to be our home for the next 4 days! Yosemite was more than I had bargained for, thought we had signed up for a nice relaxing day, minutes after arriving I found myself on top of a 4000 ft mountain, sat on a mountain bike, ready...