South Lake Tahoe

After 5 weeks of eating nothing but trans fats and foods high in e numbers, two scurvy riddled travellers decided that they had done all the preparation necessary for a 20 mile bike ride, so armed with a flimsy map and a bottle of water they set out to bike the Golden Gate bridge. The first part of the ride was a huge success, the sun was shining no-one fell off, spirits were high. So to celebrate the riders stop for a delicious brunch of bacon and eggs and mint...

After San Diego we decided to brave the Amtrak, great decision. Very clean and no-one on board that featured on America's most wanted. We were adopted by a sailor on shore leave, who informed us that our destination, Fresno, was not best for Sequoia NP and we should get off at his stop and he would take us to a hotel and set us in the right direction. Jez thought he may have wanted to kill us, I was hoping he wanted to sell us a time share ( more free shows), a...

San Diego........ nightmare city for people with no credit card will power!!! How is that we are travelling on a "budget" and yet we spend 8 hours at the mall and stagger home with more bags than we can carry? Sorry HSBC bank manager dude. On the experience of a lifetime front, we swam with the Beluga whales at Seaworld, which was amazing. There were only 8 of us in the group ( nothing to do with the fact that we could have bought a whale for the cost...