Happy Birthday Sarah! Time to move on again, today we're flying to San Francisco. Unfortunately Tom was feeling the effects of the free drinks last night! The flight was just over an hour and we landed in San Francisco airport shortly after lunch. We'd booked a hostel in Down-town San Fran and have heard varying reports about the area. Most say it's a good location in which to see the City but a few have said it's quite rough. We found out for ourselves soon en...

We had a lovely lie in this morning as it was the first day for ages we've not had something to get up for. At about 1.00pm we headed down to the restaurant for another all you can eat, the plan was to eat enough to last us all day. Rachael ate as much as she could stomach and Tom went one step further and actually felt sick! We headed back to the room for a while and Tom promptly fell asleep due to his full belly.At about 7.00pm we went back down to the casino a...

Still struggling from the flight a couple of days ago, when the alarm went off at 5am our bodies did not know what was going on. We were catching the Greyhound bus from the down-town area, which didn't sound too appealing, but we had little other option.Thankfully the bus taking us for the hour across town arrived within minutes and the driver seemed pretty helpful. The bus travelled through some decent areas but as you would expect the city was a little grim jus...

Somehow we'd managed to get the time differences totally wrong and as we sat for breakfast discovered we were already five minutes late for the tour. Thankfully LA must be influenced by "Fiji time" (the Fijian excuse for everything being late) and we managed to board the bus a few minutes before it left the hostel.The four hour tour took us round the "stars" houses (typically sceptical Tom doubted any actually lived there), the shopping distri...

We'd gone back in time on the flight and gained ourselves a flight and a few hours which sounded handy but wasn't good on the jet lag front.The world famous LAX was our port of call and heavy security greeted us with the rigmarole for photos and finger prints. We were welcomed back into winter for the first time in twelve months with rain in LA.Opting for the cheapest route into town we caught the bus with the locals to Santa Monica, the beach side of town. The b...