We drove into Oregon early the next day, and headed straight up to Portland, the only notable place to stay in Oregon, but the drive was very unrealistic, my scars from Fiji had started to become quiet painful I the last few days so Nate drove for a while. I have been putting Iodine on them to keep them clean, but since someone stole my shoes in Fiji I have been wearing my flip flops Alma bought me everyday. It’s quite cold up here, and flip flops are not t...

So it was off to Seattle, via numerous stops. First of all was the driving over the Golden Gate. This was preceded by me hearing a clicking noise coming from the car we had just picked up, and after an inspection we found a huge screw in the tyre! Lucky! For the inconvenience we were given a better, bigger car for free. A Pontiac GT…nice, but to my horror it was white. It may well have been the whitest car on the face of the planet. Oh well, by the time w...

So Greyhound up to San Fran was pretty uneventful, did meet a cool guy from Oakland, who later I found out to be a gang member in that area! Scary hey! He was quite open about it though, with his brother’s tattoos to signify where his allegiances lie. Interesting trip! I got into San Fran and again it all flowed back to me. I was in san Fran to meet up with a couple I had met in Fiji, and travel up to Seattle with them! That’s a 1500 mile journey up t...

So it was off to Los Angeles, central LA that is. I remembered it well. We went to Beverly Hills (very nice!) Bel Air, Hollywood, and Mulholland Drive. I have to say my opinions on Los Angeles have changed, I suppose being over 21 and having a car kind of helped that situation! But Hollywood is quite funky, I remember it being seedy and unattractive. We drove the length of Mulholland Drive which was awesome, knocked into Jerry Brookheimer (the producer) up in th...

So we hired the crappiest little car you could ever hope to hire, and headed out to see the sights, first on the list Newport Beach. It really is like on the TV show, the houses are huge and worth millions. Lots of them are private communities too so we couldn't drive up them. But Around Newport, Laguna and Balboa the beaches are gorgeous. Not the same as Fijian, or Australian Beaches they seem different. The sand is different and obviously you have the undis...