Hi! Since our last blog we have been very busy, as we have spent the past four days in San Francisco and have been commuting there from the U.S. Hartleys' apartment just outisde of the city, where each evening we have, invariably, got drunk in one way or another. Monday; we explored the cheesy touristy area known as fishermans wharf or pier 39. It is horrible, literally just a tourist trap with nothing really to see or do other than spend money. The sea lions...

Our final day in NYC was a fairly wide-ranging one across three of the five boroughs. First - the Museum of Modern Art (MoMa) in Manhattan. There was quite a few cool exhibitions here- Lichtenstein, Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol stuff was all good,and there was a great exhibition of Salvador Dali's surrealist paintings so it was well worth the visit, although two art museums in a week has exhausted Matt's ability to look at paintings for quite some time! Art r...

Hello Hello Central park is pretty much the best place I have ever been jogging. As I ran through the trees looking up at the skyscrapers, stopping occasionally to drink from a water fountain (very very very hot here) and listen to a busker, I thought perhaps it couldnt get more surreal. Then a christina aguilera wannabee teenage girl warbled her way badly through the 'star spangled banner' before some teenage football game began. Only in America. We visted the...

Hello Eveyone! I am currently writing this as Matt is running around Central Park. Firstly, we arrived in New York only to discover that my bag was still in London, cheers Terminal 5! Not sure why this happened but they gave me $50 to buy some new stuff. Anyway so we finally found our hostel and without realising i had given them an expired card so they rented out the room we had booked. Thankfully they found a space for me in a girls dorm but unfortunately tha...

Hey, So this is the first blog - just to let everybody know our intended travel plan before we set off - i think its going to be interesting to see if we actually stick to the original plan, but here it is; 1st sept (tomorrow!!) = NYC 6th September = California - San Francisco, Lake Tahoe, Santa Rosa, Yosemite, San Diego, LA, and also maybe Vegas and Grand Canyon 10th October = Guatemala, then making our way through central america heading towards Cosat Ric...