Dancing!! After a leisurely lie in we got up to blue skies and sunshine! We spent a few hours wandering about, looking in various bookshops for a south American map which doesn't appear to exist and generally browsing. We paid a visit to STA, the travel agents we used back in the UK to set up our trip and insurance, to see if we could sort some of our later flights out. They were very helpful and gave us the website of a company called spirit air who work ou...

Arriving in New York We woke up after a disturbing night to rain, but at least the wind had dropped! Back to the drawing board looking for a place to stay in New York, in desperation I put a plea out on the last minute requests board on couchsurfing. Finally a result, well several in fact! We had a couple of people text us about rooms to let and one guy email us recommending his friend who had an apartment to rent. We rang the guy with the apartment, we still c...

IHOP & Irene We decided we'd treat ourselves today as we were feeling a bit down over the lack of response in New York. So we found a restaurant which had been recommended to us called IHOP. It is a chain across America and is short for....International House Of Pancakes!!!! It is obviously a popular place as we arrived at about 10.30 and already there was a 10-15 minute wait to get a table!! With nothing better to do, we waited and eventually were seate...

Nick's Garage We had an uninterrupted night's sleep and woke up at 9 am. After filling the water bottles we set off again. We drove until lunch time and then stopped because Mae was missing Matt and needed to chat on skype for 2 ½ hours, during which time we also tried to find a place to stay in New York. This turns out to be far easier said than done as the majority of people don't bother to answer your messages and this is on a site where you are paying to s...

Buffalo. :( Once again we were woken up by a policeman knocking on Bertha's window at 8.30am to 'check if we are OK.' Which we were until he rudely woke us up. It is however very considerate of the US tax payer to fund our own personal alarm clock. We wondered whether he provided the same service to the 4 or 5 other travellers parked there or the Jesus bus which was covered from tip to tail in slogans. The police car then proceeded to wait until we left so we an...