The picture shows our car for the trip, a Chevrolet Aveo, actually built by Daewoo in Korea. After I collected it I noticed an unusual symbol on the dash. Not enough time to take it back yesterday & I was not able to check it out until today, (Hertz office closed) when I found it meant low pressure in one or more tyres. Black mark to Hertz! This cost us about an hour's delay this morning, coming off the Highway, checking tyres, finding gas station, buying...

Today we are in Pasadena where the graduation will take place later today. The photo is the view from the room balcony. We are on the 12th floor. Yesterday we went around the Huntington Gardens near here. These are quite spectacular with the best for us being the Desert Garden with hundreds or probably thousands of different cacti. There is also an amazing Rose Garden showing the history of the rose over the last 2,000 years. Other gardens include the Chine...

We are now in Southern California & yes, it did rain this morning. It has also been quite cold, in fact I heard something about it being a record cold day for this time of year. We had a rough flight from Newark with lots of turbulence. The photo is of the end of Route 66 on Santa Monica pier. We went to Santa Monica after landing at LAX. This morning we went to Ontario Mills shopping Mall, a typical large American Mall. The main reason for going there ...