Stop 26: Oahu Island, Hawaii Aloha Hawaii! After a lengthy day of travelling and an ancient partially-deaf taxi driver who pushed our patience to the limit driving at 20mph for 70 minutes to our destination of Laie along Oahu's North Shore (and charging us £80 for the privilege too) we were over the moon to arrive in paradise. Our home for the week was with Scotsman Fraser and ex-New Yorker Janice, at their beautiful beachside home. Our apartment was 40 step...

Stop 25: San Diego Friday night We'd experienced a slight hiccup on arrival in San Diego, where our latest host was unfortunately not aware of our booking, and so was not expecting us... We feared homelessness but luckily he was able to quickly sort our room - we wouldn't have been able to handle trying to find alternate accommodation in our hungover, sleep-deprived states! We quickly fell in love with our latest adopted pet, Colt the dog - the softest dog in...

Stop 24: South California (San Clemente, Laguna Beach, Huntington Beach & Newport Beach) Wednesday We were good for nothing more than a lazy beach day after our epic road trip the day before, and so spent the day soaking up the sunshine on San Clemente's beautiful golden beach. We made friends with a lovely group of friends sunning themselves nearby - pilots Dan and Dave and their friends Jasmine & Matt, and so we all headed to the pier's bar to enjoy ...

Stop 23: Hoover Dam & Grand Canyon (Tuesday) With a 14 hour, 750 mile journey ahead of us today, idiots that we are, instead of making an early start we took our sweet time cooking up a pancake feast to leisurely devour in the Utah sunshine. Finally, we set off - first stop Hoover Dam. Being big kids, we amused ourselves greatly along the way by gesturing to truck drivers we passed to blare their horns at us, cackling hysterically for hours at this game. ...

Stop 22: Zion National Park Las Vegas (Friday) We reluctantly left the decadence and comfort of Carin's LA home, and headed first to Las Vegas, for one night only. We very much enjoyed the three hour traffic jam caused by an accident en route, causing us to take SEVEN hours to get there, and to be more than a little late for our evening plans.... Nat had a lovely evening of dinner and drinks with friends Linda and Nicola at the Aria, while Helen (or her misbe...