Last day in the US for this year :-( After breakfast we packed the car up and headed for a shopping centre to buy another suitcase. We ended up with a samsonite soft side for $99 from Ross's, a sort of down market trade secret. Then it was south to the hotel we booked for today. We checked in and a massive re-pack ensued as what we had left for the last suitcase was overweight lol finally all organised we had some lunch, finishing up the last of the food. We s...

It started off a bit foggy today but it burned off by midday. We started the day out with a visit to Scott at Unique Corals. They've expanded quite a lot since we were there a year ago. The display tanks are now taking shape, the circular one fully operational and looking great. Scott was his usual welcoming self and we spent over an hour there. Next stop was a LFS I'd seen on line at home, Vivid Aquariums. It was as good in person as on line and the owner more...

Most of the morning was taken up with Pete working; answering emails, setting up meetings etc. We set off to Anaheim to meet one of our suppliers. The drive was mostly freeway with some interesting billboards & highway walls with different patterns. As we arrived at our supplier we found a couple of oil derricks in front of the industrial park, we are definitely back in SoCal lol The meeting went really well, we spent a couple of hours there before heading...

A relaxing day with nothing that really needed to be done. It's warm and sunny, a bit of a preview for home from all reports where it's been high 20's lately :-) We went to a shopping centre in the centre of town and organised replacement prescription sunglasses for Pete. Not the Oakley ones he wanted cos they couldn't guarantee them being done before we leave but he got some Ray Bans organised, they should be ready by Fri. We managed to buy a duffle style bag...

Today's a little cooler, high teens to low twenties and mostly overcast. We meandered through cute seaside towns. We stopped at a place advertising eggs and bought a dozen, all different shapes, sizes and colours; one egg was even green! The asking price at the egg stall was $4 a doz but with no change we paid $5, still a good deal I think, at least one of the eggs is equivalent to two normal ones. There were a lot of market gardens in between the towns with, i...