We are officially coming to the end of our trip across America, the second and longest leg of our adventure. We arrived here on the 18th January and now, about 10 weeks later, are preparing to leave. Over the last 10 weeks we have travelled across 10 states (in order Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, Texas, California, Nevada and Arizona) and stayed in 16 different places. We have rode on 13 Greyhounds which amounts to 78 hours or 3....

Our first stop in Redondo Beach was the beach and the pier. As we approached the sky was full of kites. We had arrived on the weekend of the Annual Kite Festival. Neither of us has flown a kite or even thought about kites since we were kids so it was good. As we wandered down the pier we both noticed signs forbidding the feeding of the birds and sea lions. We saw various gulls and pigeons and shrugged thinking it unlikely we'd be lucky enough to see anything mor...

After another long trip on the Greyhound we finally arrived back in Los Angeles. We had missed our connecting bus to Long Beach and with the next one not leaving for another two hours we headed out to use the public transit system grumpy yet glad to be done with Greyhound. So we caught the number 60 bus (the same one we had caught from Venice Beach to the Greyhound about 3 weeks earlier) to the Metro Line. At this point we purchased tickets, with the help of a s...

Las Vegas definitely lives up to it's reputation as the "Sin City". The strip is larger than life and twice as noisy. Everything there is big: from the 22oz yard drinks to the massive casinos to the huge, elaborate hotels to the all-you-can-eat buffets offering cuisines of multiple nationalities and more food than you can shake a stick at. After queuing an hour to check in we then got both confused and lost in the quest to find our room (no simple feat consideri...

Santa Barbara was always intended to be a stop off point for our eastward bound trip to Las Vegas. Greyhound buses have a lot of coverage but you have to plan carefully to get the right buses choosing either day or night journeys to fit your ongoing plans.After a Kelly had spent the time doing this planning, hands up Kelly is my personal planner! We had taken a night bus ride from San Francisco leaving about 8pm travelling some beautiful scenic coastlines of the ...