Well Hello there our lovely readers, hope you're all well. We are now in sunny LA after a crazy ride on the Mexican subway (packed out at 5am!) followed by a rather bumpy flight from Mexico. We have been staying in Venice Beach at the Hostel California, in a huge 40 bed dorm where people have hung blankets up to make a sort of den for privacy, not unlike a refugee camp! Unfortunately the coughs and splutters of the fellow refugees mean that disease spreads fa...

The Grand Canyon. Wow. It was awesome, and the pictures don´t show the half of it! We settled into a nice little town called Flagstaff, about an hour´s drive away from the Canyon. They had a really good hostel there that catered for many a need (even the need for mindless videos!) and ran cheap tours to the Canyon. We jumped on one of those with some other young enthusiasts and it was definitely a good way to do it. The canyon was different from ever...

Truth or Consequences - that really is the name of this little town! It was something to do with a radio show in the 60s that wanted a town to take its name... Anyway it was a nice little find for us road weary travellers - hot springs! And warmer weather. We stayed in a lovely little hostel place that felt like a holiday camp and spent hours and hours soaking in the hot tubs. In the morning we went to church in a little Methodist place, where the people were v...

The back and beyond has been done! We're living the dream baby! (The driving across America dream that is!) We've seen some places with little more than a street in, been pulled over by the Police already (for doing 38 in a 30 zone, but he let us off!), and have made foolish assumptions about what a roadside 'rest area' might have to offer (chuff all). We spent a night in Las Vegas, New Mexico - not the big flashy one, a quieter smaller version -...

Another long train journey over (19 hours this time!), we stepped out into the crisp Denver air, Matt still in shorts though perhaps starting to regret it! It had recently snowed. Denver was nice enough, a pretty little place, but our main purpose for being there was to see Angela. Sadly this was not to be! We tried to hunt her down but our lack of foresight in the matter of bringing a phone number meant it was futile. We stayed in the Hostel of the Rockies whi...