Nearly three months ago I made a promise to return to San Francisco and visit Alcatraz. This weekend I kept that promise. It was in the San Francisco International Hostel where I met my friend Paul from LA and we celebrated our "anniversary" by returning to the place we met. We drove up on Friday evening to beat the Saturday afternoon traffic and Paul's friend Jacob who was in town kindly let us share his hotel room for the first night. Due to the Californian ...

So five days have just passed and I've finally settled down and found a quiet moment to type another blog. Such was my intense visit of San Francisco. Difficult to know where to start. Once again I met some great people. I was lucky enough to be thrown in a dorm with Paul & Pete. Paul lives in LA and Pete is from Leicester (OK not everyone is perfect!) they were mates from uni and Paul is visiting for a while. We immediately bonded and throw in free beer a...