250 days, 9 countries, 12 flights and loads of amazing sights later we reached our final stop, Miami. It has been a perfect place to end our trip, loads of sun, sea, shopping and eating. Apart from the days filled with the 'usual' we have also made a couple of trips away from Miami to visit Key West and Kennedy to watch the launch of the Endeavour space shuttle. We met a couple of guys heading to Key West and decided to go along with them hiring a car for the da...

We visited four theme parks, Epcot and Blizzard Beach at Disney World, Busch Gardens in Tampa and Universal Studios. After doing all the rides in Epcot, we visited the 12 countries in the world showcase and had a nice meal in China followed by some amazing fireworks. Blizzard Beach waterpark was a fun day out but it was really busy and we didn't manage to get on every ride. Busch Garden's rollercoasters were awesome. There were also loads of cool animals of an Af...

After Las Vegas our adventure across America began once again on the worst transport known to man, the Greyhound bus. Our first stop was Santa Fe. Downtown was quite nice and had lots of great art galleries if you're into that sort of thing. The next stop was El Paso - right on the Texas/Mexico border. It was a really cool place -very mexican as you can imagine and also had a big art district. We stayed in the first hostel where we were given a host to look after...

Flying into Las Vegas we were surprised at how big the city was. Surrounding the strip there were miles of residential areas. We later learnt it is the fastest growing city in the US with 8,000 people each month moving there. We were also surprised at how hot was when we stepped out of the airport. Apparently even Las Vegas gets heat waves, from the usual 100f it was up over 120f/50c whilst we were there! We had one week in Vegas, four nights at the top of the s...

On our first day in San Francisco we visited Lombard Street, the world's crookedest. The films make it look a lot bigger than it really is. The next day we went to Alcatraz with a friend we met in Fiji. We took the audio tour which was really good and meant we could go at our own pace. It was really interesting learning about the history of the prison and attempted breakouts. We also met a former prisoner there #1422 (AKA Darwin Coon). He wasn't very talkative b...