San Francisco was somewhere I had always wanted to go, in fact it was somewhere I had booked flights to a few times but something always came up and meant I never actually got there! This time even though Gareth got stuck in New Zealand waiting for his visa I headed to San Fran alone. Saying goodbye in Auckland airport was horrible - it was 12 months to the day since we'd left London for the 1st time on our big trip and a few weeks apart seems like a very long ...

Arriving into George W Bush INTERCONTINENTAL airport (I kid you not!!), Houston Texas was like getting reverse culture shock. We went from 6 months in South America with hardly any shops and very few English speakers to being surrounded by shops and diners with anything your heart could desire and not having to think about what we were about to say in Spanish because everyone speaks English. I was ridiculously excited and could hardly contain myself over food f...