Awlriiighht Contiki...let's get it on!! (our morning song on the Contiki bus to the classic Marvin Gaye tune) Boarding a bus for a 2 week trek across America may seem crazy but doing it contiki style made it incredible. Apart from seeing some of the biggest sites the US has to offer, like Mt Rushmore, Crazy Horse, Yellowstone National Park, and the Corn Palace in Mitchell, South Dakota, we met some awesome people and partied it up in some of the most random ...

Chicago, chicago. The next stop on our trek was the great city of Chicago. We were fortunate as our very hospitable hosts, Craig and Stephanie Malk, were in the process of moving apartments when we arrived and so they offered us their empty flat that they were moving out of for our first 2 nights in the city. This enabled us to get a real taste of living in downtown Chicago which was really great as we were able to quickly get our bearings of all the important ...

To be honest, we actually stayed just a tincy wincy outside of Washington D.C., in Arlington, Virginia and spent time in both cities. We were welcomed to the city by our host and friend, Jacci and her hubby, Menachem Wecker. They were amazing hosts, were really helpful and couldn't go out their way enough for us. DC is famous for housing the house of all houses...the White House andall the political buildings that go with being the capital city. We spent a da...

As promised in our last blogpost (Boston) we've added details of how we're getting around/where we staying and what we've booked/planning to head to. The only way we could keep these on the blog was to keep them in the good ol' Jozi (Johannesburg) link under the blogpost listing...so please check in there for regular updates as we trek through the world - we hope they help the budding tour planners out there! We have also added a Facebook page for this blog: ht...

As promised in our last blogpost (Boston) we've added details of how we're getting around/where we staying and what we've booked/planning to head to. The only way we could keep these on the blog was to keep them in the good ol' Jozi (Johannesburg) link under the blogpost listing...so please check in there for regular updates as we trek through the world - we hope they help the budding tour planners out there! We have also added a Facebook page for this blog: ht...