I was up at 6am for an early breakfast before heading to the meet up point (which was at a British Tavern!) for a mountain bike tour, down the "Worlds Most Dangerous Road". This 65km downhill bike ride was one of the things I most wanted to do in Bolivia and after hearing a few horror stories about some fatal accidents, I decided to book with the best operator I could find, Gravity Tours, who assured my safety. My group (12 riders, so nice and small) was bused ...

So the blogs from Bolivia & Peru are all being done via my i phone so they may well be on the shorter side, it's no fun having to tap these out :) I arrived in La Paz (one of the highest cities in the world at around 12,000ft) at 6am after a horrid long layover in Miami (that will teach me for booking the cheapest flight, but I'm also on a travelers budget so needs must). Small, simple airport and easy taxi ride (without getting too ripped off I think) direc...

OK so for Napa, this blog is a guest entry and written by Caroline. Who as you will see is a far better writer than me :-) Open 10.30 ish to 4.00. Maybe. Calistoga is the municipal version of a nap on the sofa after a long and leisurely Sunday lunch: a mellow, tipsy, dozy, 'everything's a bit too much of an-effort, so I think I'll just lie here' kind of place.We arrived on a hot Tuesday afternoon via the beautiful 'valley of the moon' and headed straight for ...

I'm not amused with this website. I had written a long blog for both Saturday and Sundays activities in San Francisco so as to be up to date by the time Caroline arrived out from the UK to join me for the last part of my trip (I mean who wants to wine taste alone!) but the site crashed and I lost my blogging. As I was not in the mood to write it all again and since Caroline arrived finding time to write has been hard, I am writing this as a summary now of all the...

It's another longer travel day so a short entry in the blog. I eat a long leisurely breakfast with Carol and Sherman, pack my things up and say my goodbyes. It really would have been good to stay another night but I guess that's a good reason to come back to Yosemite as I feel like I only just scratched the surface of this beautiful place. The drive was a little boring again. To be fair having driven Route 1 anything else is bound to be boring, but the good new...