So its back to civilisation and the city of choice is Sacramento. No disrespect to the folks of sacramento but our reason for this is more one of geography. The city is heading in the direction of our next big stopover in Seattle and is somewhere to catch up on our correspondance and chill out for a couple of nights. Due to some pretty bad forest fires about 30 miles from the city, the air was very smoky and according to the people of sacramento they had not seen...

After the relative comfort of our accommodations to date we were now to add a new dimension to our all american experience. Camping in Yosemite National Park! Instead of buying the tent, sleeping bags and all the camping paraphenalia we booked in to use one of their pre pitched tents on a campsite called white wolf. It was about 8000 feet above the valley and compared to the other accommodations offered it was pretty remote. Needless to say before we left i dragg...

So we leave Santa Barbara and rather scarily the mountain roads we had been exploring the previous day were closed due to forest fires and the entire Santa Barbara sky line was filled with smoke which is such a shame as it was all so beautiful.The fires were to plague us further as our intention had been to travel to San Francisco on highway 1 which includes some of the most stunning ocean views and includes the famous Big Sur.Nature had other ideas however and t...

So it was time to leave behind the glamour and scandal of vegas and head further north to a city called Santa Barbara.If you have been reading our previous blogs you will remember our day of fun at the beach in long beach with the cyclists.One of them was called Adam and when we had mentioned that we were planning to visit santa barbara it turns out his family live there and he offered to set us up with a place to stay for a few days!!We jumped at the chance and ...

So we are moving north up the coast to long beach just outside downtown LA. We have our longest stopover here, we have 17 nights to take in all the surrounding beaches, glamour and hollywood fame! We check in to what is the dirtiest hotel in LA it stank of stale smoke and after walking on the carpet for an hour our feet were as black as soot! Needless to say the next morning we asked for a fresher room and fortunately our wish was granted and we got a slightly be...