We arrived in L.A on Thursday evening after meeting companion number 4 - Mark - at the airport. We got to the hostel and had a few drinks in the lounge. Friday we had a chilled out day doing boring jobs such as washing! That evening had a bbq in the hostel and then we went out on the pub crawl. Of course we had a few drinks before we went out, we are trying to save money!! We went to 2 bars in Hollywood before going to apparently one of the best clubs in L.A....

We flew to Las Vegas on Sunday from San Diego- it was such a nice change to not have to get on a train!! We arrived around 3pm to what the air hostess said was a cool 106f or 42C!!! We checked into our luxury accommodation of the MGM Grand- the biggest hotel in the world and it was massive! We went straight down to the pool after we got lost trying to find it and spent an hour or 2 cooling down! Later that evening we went across to look at New York New York hot...

Hello everyone, San Diego has been really good, over a bit too quick like but good all the same. We arrived on Thursday pretty late after our final journey on the train! Wohoo- thank god we don't have to do anymore of those! We got up early on the Friday as Carol and me were going to Sea World. We had such a good time there. They had a lot of penguins for Carol. The weather has been so hot here so we made sure that we went on the water rides in Sea World- one o...

Well we had a brilliant time in San Francisco! We arrived on Monday after all Sunday on the train. We had to get another train out to Redwood City as we were staying with Matt's family there. It was about an hour away. We met Trudy (his great aunt) at the station and she took us back to her house and made us a lovely lunch! We had a look around Redwood City in the afternoon and had a well deserved beer after our train journey!! Later that night Trudy and he...

Well we eventually arrived in Vancouver. Our journey began last Monday (9th June) and ended on the Wednesday (11th June), overall 51 hours. The journey was a lot better than any of us thought, i think it was because we were dreading it so much! The train went through some beautiful scenery, a couple of national parks one of which was a glacial park, and there was loads of snow up in the mountains as we travelled through them. The train had a big observation ca...