Sonoma = Wow! We had an absolutely wonderful few days! Getting the ferry across to Larkspur from San Francisco, we quite obviously stood out as the tourists and not the normal commuters that catch the ferry! As we got on, we headed straight to the rear of the ferry so that we were outside and could try and get some photos as we cruised across the bay! It soon became apparent that the place to be is inside the boat where the cross wind is unable to take you off y...

Travelling by Greyhound from Yosemite to San Francisco on Monday was at last a journey without any weirdos!! But it wasn't without it's funny moments! While sitting in the Merced waiting room in walks some fellow bus travellers from a greyhound that was doing a quick stopover! Where possible, people try to hold onto their bladder contents until such stops so to avoid using the bus toilet! One traveller however had obviously held onto their bladder contents for ...

25th October we start our journey to Yosemite, checking out of our hotel at midday, sitting in their lounge area for an hour to conserve our energy, before walking four blocks to a road that meant we only needed to catch one bus to the Greyhound bus station, saving ourselves a whole $4!!! Once at the Greyhound station we then just had a three hour wait til our first bus to LA, leaving at 5pm! So far we have found that these Greyhound bus stations always seem to ...

So Friday, Ollie has the "great" idea of visiting the Hollywood Museum! "It's full of old tv and film sets as well as loads of costumes" he says! So off we trot to the museum that has great reviews online and appears to be a bit of a hidden gem! Once there we are greeted by a woman who must of been in 70's if not 80's but thought she was still living in the 1950's! This is when we should have been suspicious! She talked to us about all the amazing things we were ...

Well we made it safely to LA! The plane journey was great! New Zealand Airlines were very keen to show off their wares as often as they could, and so we took advantage of sampling the free New Zealand wine on offer!! We landed into LAX about 30 ahead of schedule, but that meant that we landed at the same time as four other flights!! The queue for Customs was then a good two hours long!! So then it was into a taxi to our hotel for the first night, and a sna...