Left Flagstaff on Friday morning, just in time as they gave 4 to 6 inches of snow for the area. Drove to Los Angeles, from 100 miles outside the traffic started to increase, then around 60 miles out it started to rain heavily. By the time we got to Santa Monica the car was looking almost clean, after being washed by the rain. Saturday, took car back today with 4000 more miles on it since we picked it up. After getting back to Santa Monica we went on a trip to...

Left Las Vegas on Thursday to the south rim of the Grand Canyon, this gives the views of the canyon that you expect, with all the different colours in the rock. You can walk to the bottom from this side but its not recommended you do it in one day, but we met a couple while there who had done just that. Lots of people were walking down today, staying at the bottom overnight, either camping or in the Phantom Lodge and then walking back up tomorrow. The trail to...

Arrived in Las Vegas on Monday 31st October (Halloween). It looks nothing in the day, in fact it looks a bit gruby, but as soon as it gets dark the whole place is transformed and inside the casinos is something everyone should see. Las Vegas is definately a night time town, I would advise going going to Hoover Dam or Grand Canyon in the day, then get back to Las Vegas for when it gets dark. We went to Hoover Dam on Tuesday, was smaller than I expected but when...

Went to Kings Canyon walking again today, it was our last day walking before heading to Las Vegas tomorrow so we had abandoned hope of seeing a bear, then today we saw two. The first was just in the woods as we drove into Cedar Grove, we stopped the car and it came to within 6 feet of the car, then just turned around and went back into the woods, the second was while we were walking on the trail, it was in a tree just in front of us, we stopped and it came down ...

We went to the Sequoia National Park today to see General Sherman, the largest (most mass) tree in the world. Went on a few of the walks that were in the park after the hikes in Yosemite they were really easy and relatively flat. Dai did a handstand and a one handed handstand as requested by Jace, take a look at the video to get a clue to how he did it :-)