We have made it up to San Francisco and met up with my Mum & Dad again. We had a great drive from Hollywood out to Santa Monica then up the Pacific Coast Highway. We stayed overnight in Pismo Beach and Santa Cruz and arrived in San Fran on Saturday afternoon during the St. Patrick Day carnival! We drove over the Golden Gate Bridge to Sausalito and back before finding a hotel on Broadway (which is not as posh as it sounds!) We have spent the last few days exp...

San Diego is a great city, we stayed twice as long as we thought we would and really enjoyed exploring it. The Gas Lamp Quarter is great and we even managed to work out the tram system! We spent ages at the Zoo and walking around Bilboa Park and took the city tour on a "Trolley". Today we rented a car, got a free upgrade to a Jeep and left San Diego. We took the Pacific Coast Road (the "1") up to Los Angeles. We called in to Huntington, Long ...

We have escaped form Vegas! What a crazy city it is. This morning we took a flight South to San Diego on the Mexican border and have already found a bar! We have organised a tour of San Diego for tomorrow and plan to go to the zoo on Monday. We have loads to organise before we leave here because we need a car and some sort of plan to get to L.A. and San Fran. before heading North upto Seattle and into Canada. We are going in search now of some food that is not ...