Day 339, 8 June 2013, San Francisco to Lima, Peru and on to Cuzco... And to fill in the time between chuck out (of hotel) and check in (at airport) we went to a show! Just a tiny pop-up play held at the Hotel Cartwright. There were only 20 seats in the room and at 1.58 pm the production manager came in to say the group of 18 that were expected had just cancelled. Wow. Seat of the pants stuff. We could have had a refund (boring!) or come back at 8 pm (not pos...

Day 338, 7 June 2013, San Francisco, California. Lazy morning and an afternoon pottering about China Town - the highlight of the day was visiting the Custom Made Theater Co. (www.custommade.org) here in San Fran for their production of "Prelude to a Kiss". And we chose to walk there. It wasn't the worst walk in the world - but boy, the tourist maps in San Fran could sure do to be topographical - couple of hills en route - phew! On a positive note we had five ...

Day 337, 6 June 2013, San Francisco, California. We are taking it (semi) easy at the moment - having a breather before South America. We utilised our transport passes and spent the day cruising up hill and down dale on cable cars (seriously the hardest worked braking systems in the world - pictured). Jolly difficult to get actual photos when you are on the cable cars... and highly dangerous standing in the middle of the street for the perfect shot. Though not...

Day 336, 5 June 2013, San Francisco, California - Fisherman's Wharf, Union Square, China Town... All coffee'd up and ready to go after sub-par night at the Herbert Hotel, San Francisco... Hotel in this instance is stretching the bounds of belief - gussied up backpacker hostel would just about cover it. But that is another story and that's why we love Trip Advisor so much. We did the maths on the cable car caper... $6 per ride, $14 per day or $22 per 3 days. We...

Day 335, 4 June 2013, Hollywood - Union Station Los Angeles - and 7.5 hours later... San Francisco, California. All for only US$38 between us. Go Megabus! A UK company that advertises fares as low as £1 each has set up here (or at least the brand has) and we sailed through the long bus drive on the upper deck of a double decker bus - spying out olive groves, citrus trees and grape vines by the mile. Not a bad day. Just a long day. Discovered when we got he...