We totally misread the weather today. It was so warm in our room because the fire had been on all night. When we got outside, the sun was out and it felt pretty good with a light fleece and a coat on. By the time we had found a cafe for breakfast & walked back to the street to get the hop on hop off bus, the sun had gone & it seemed to be getting colder. We expected the bus would be heated but it wasn't. In fact, there were a couple of windows open. We de...

What a long day! The flight from Sydney was uneventful but there wasn't much sleep to be had. I don't know why. I like that particular flight because there is usually a lot of 'lights out' time but there were some very noisy people on board. When we got to LAX, the usual immigration queue was there but after a while a lady told our line to go up to the US residents queue which was practically empty. Once we cleared immigration we headed to Terminal 2 where Westje...