Redwoods National Park (the home of Bigfoot) marks the end of our California leg which offers more huge trees, the drive through tree (the truck just made it through, much to the shock and amusement and of the gathering spectators...), more great hiking, an angry bull elk, beaches and the ocean. Aaron's tasting notes - our final night in California was spent watching another amazing sunset over the ocean whilst enjoying a bottle anchor steam ale from ones of Ame...

A random stop in Petaluma because the brewery turned out to be an awesome little find. We ended up staying in a wicked Victorian style hotel whilst enjoying the quality tastes of Lagunitas Brewing Company. The Day Time Ale was our pick of the bunch.

After 4 days of hiking we were looking forward to a couple of days in the city. San Francisco was awesome (not including the traffic), we started our city break with a big american breakfast (waffles, pancakes and shakes) at the 50s style Louis Diner. After exploring downtown, we checked out the wharf, piers and old school arcades before tucking into some lovely seafood (and clam chowder). We spent our second day exploring the cool San Francisco streets, the Go...

Yosemite National Park provided some more awesome hiking (most notably Glacier Point and Vernal and Nevada falls), amazing views, more amazing views and flame grilled burgers cooked on Laura's first assisted fire...

More huge trees, amazing meadows, canyons, rivers and an amazing drive... Aaron's tasting notes - a nice selection of local beers: California 99 Golden Ale and General Sherman IPA by Tioga-Sequoia Brewing Company and Yosemite Pale Ale and Tuolumne Meadows IPA by Mammoth Brewing Company accompanied the campfire a stars - awesome...