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 ...

Although we are still staying at our Las Vegas hotel, our travels took us out of the state of nevada and into arizona and to the Grand Canyon! The road to the grand canyon passes through the Hoover Dam so we stopped there to take in the engineering marvel which is the largest dam ever built. The sheer size of the structure just blows you away, you really need to see it to believe it but is really is an amazing sight. We didnt do any of the visitors centre as we w...

For as long as we live I don't think we will ever forget arriving in Las Vegas.You drive for hours seeing nothing but desert, desert and yet more desert then from nowheresuddenlythe horizon fills with the weirdest and most surreal skyline!Pyramids, the eiffel tower, the statue of liberty, the empire state building, the green tower of the MGM Grand, the elegance of the Bellagio and that's just for starters!!We negotiate the insanity that is the Las Vegas strip to ...

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...