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...

We are now in Dallas...the trek america trip ended on Sunday which was very sad. Peter left us in Victoria as he had decided to do a trail on Vancouver Island. And we drove back to Seattle. Stefan, Kim and Darren left as soon as we got to Seattle as they had to either go to the hostel or catch a flight. The rest of us had a wander around Seattle and then went back to the hotel and said goodbye to Matt. We were staying at a different hotel so said our...

Spent the day wandering around Dallas city centre today...which is really nice, smaller than we thought it would be....and extremely hot.... We went to the scultpure gardens at the art gallery and went to the top of the Reunion Tower and had cocktails in their revolving restaurant overlooking the city. Off to L.A tomorrow to pick up the car.

Day 20 of the Trek America Tour....We arrived in Victoria today which is supposed to be a very English city. We had a couple of hours to walk around. There were loads of fake bears painted with loads of different designs. And darth vader was playing the violin in the street (which was a bit bizarre). We spent a lot of time just sitting on the harbour drinking coffee. Its our last night of the trek tonight so Matt is cooking fish for Dinner.

Day 19 of the Trek America Tour...some of the group went hiking today - we decided to take it easy and walked around the botanical garderns which were fab. There were loads of unusual sculptures on the way round. We had lunch there which was amazing as it was made out of natural and organic ingredients. That evening we went back to the lodge with Peter and Ann, Darren Kim, George and Stefan also joined us. As it was such a beautiful day the sunset was spe...