Home - Safe and Sound! Well what can I say? What a fantastically amazingly wonderful time I've had! I'm so pleased I kept up with the daily blog. Sorry if it was a bit much for people to keep up with, but I was mostly doing it as a diary so I can look back and reminisce. Thank you to all of you though (especially my biggest fan, my mum) who kept up with me and commented along the way. It made me feel not quite so lonely. Mostly I've had no problems doing th...

Fruit in Atlanta Flight to Atlanta. The traumatic toilet experience is now in the past. The toilet on the plane was an absolute delight! Clean, a seat, toilet paper, soap, HOT water, AND paper towels! Oh how I've missed normality! Fruitgate! I saved my fruit and bread roll from breakfast on the plane to eat later. (A habit I have been doing now for a few weeks to save the pennies). When filling out my declaration I asked the flight attendant re the fruit....

Locked in!Day 90. That's a nice even number. So I got up early for my flight to Lima in Peru. I came down stairs where it was all dark and pushed the hotel door. It was padlocked! I tried again and it wasn't budging! There was nobody at reception...I WAS LOCKED IN!!!! WTF????? Seriously? I felt a sudden panic rise in me. Not about missing my flight; I was very early. Just the being locked in thing and feeling trapped! I did not like that at all! I st...

The Waiting GameI stayed in my room watching netflix until my growling stomach forced me out. I found a Mexican restaurant - I'm DESPERATE for flavour - and read my book. A Canadian couple came in and I started chatting to them. From Ottawa Susan - don't ask me where abouts. They'd just got engaged and told me all about it. I cried. What IS the matter with me??I then walked back, stepping over and swerving round all the stray dogs and avoiding eye contact w...

From £4 to £24 accommodation I am leaving Copacabana today. I'm very sad. Yesterday I was very emotional. I cried when I read about the flooding in Cumbria, I cried when the waitress saw a huge tip on the adjacent table, made a little squeak of delight, then kissed and blessed it. I cried when a local woman and her 3 year old son came in (to the same cafe/bar - I was there for hours) begging for money and the wee boy took some of a neighbours chips. I als...