So I've been in Seattle now for about 36 hours. So far all I've managed to do is sleep a lot and browse round the Pike Place Market and the shops! I bought some Roxy shoes for only $17! That's me done with shopping in the States now. It's all too tempting! There are less homeless people here than in San Francisco I think, but I think maybe I'm just based in a better area?! You may have seen that I've uploaded 4 whole pictures from Alcatraz. I wanted to uplo...

Continued..... After our fab cooked breakfast we headed off to Joshua Tree National Park. We were actually staying in a place called Desert Hot Springs. We were now back in California. The campground was supposed to be for RVs and wasn't really set up for camping so there was no fire ring or pit so we couldn't make a fire and it got really cold. The place did have a great pool complex with natural hot spring water. The pool was great but I got bored of swim...

continued from last blog... Paul said she had while before we got to the hotel. He handed us the newsletters from the National Park that they give you to tell you about what's happening and they give you maps etc. He then started laughing as we started driving off and I settled down to continue writing my journal. I looked at him and he was like ah Martin's noticed and I was like what? and turned to look out the window and they was the Grand Canyon!! I was li...

So I'll continue with letting you know what happened on Trek... So after Bakersfield we headed to Death Valley. We stopped for many photo stops along the way and so arrived at our campground after dark. The campground was really basic and didn't even have showers. Paul thought he'd help us out by driving the can off the road and leaving the headlights on while we put the tents up but that plan didn't really work as we got stuck in soft sand. So yep we had the...

I'm back in civilisation after nearly 2 days! I left for the bus station in San Francisco too early and got there 2 hours before my bus when I only really had to be there just over an hour before! So I sat and waited. The bus came on time and we arrived in Sacramento a little bit late with only 25 mins to spare before my next bus. Or so I thought. I noticed a poster which said All Northbound buses cancelled due to bad weather. I then heard an announcement c...