15th June - Jim managed to watch the football this morning - we headed off later than expected to our next destination. 16th June - Drove through Joshua Tree National Park this morning. Were wondering why it was called this until we came across hundreds of Joshua Trees!!! Went to Key view which overlooked the valley of Palm Springs created by the San Andreas Fault. We then went to Palm Springs and went on the Ariel Tramway (2nd highest cable car in th...

Arrived in San Fransisco on the 5th June at around lunch time and went straight to Fishermans Wharf...which was mega busy with tourists. We wandered around, had some lunch and went to watch the smelly sea lions at the end of pier 39...they were very very very smelly. We then walked up one of the massive steep hills to the crookedest street which does what it says on the tin...its got something like 10 turns in it to help cars get down it as it is so steep. ...

We picked the car up on the 1st and headed straight off onto the Pacific Coast Highway - Route 1. Jim upgraded the car to a massive Chrysler thingy (fake Bentley) in gold....... Drove through Santa Monica, Malibu and Santa Barbara on the first day. 2nd June - we continued the drive and stopped at Morro Bay for some lunch at a sea shack - which was fab and then drove up through Big Sur. The roads were very winding and through the mountains along th...