Got up early, and managed to get to Universal Studios shortly after the gates openned at 9. We bought front-of-line tickets which cost a bit more but meant you didn't have to wait in line for any rides. When we arrived the park was quite empty, but after about 40 mins it got much busier. We ended up spending the whole day there till about 8pm and had loads of fun. We went on all the rides apart from waterwolrd. The Jussaic Park Water Flume was my favo...

Wow what a place. We managed to find a hotel with a vacancy inside the park as we really wanted to spend more than a day here. However our hotel was still 1hr30mins from the valley floor. The park was so beautiful and has to be my favourite place so far on the whole trip. Glaciers have shaped the valley at Yosemite and left some amazing granite formations. El Capitane is a huge granite monolith in the valley. We also saw two spectacular waterfalls. We...

We stayed for three nights in San Francisco, two of which were spent at the pink castle house owned by Dennis Peron. The house was in Castro, the gay district, really great area that is virtually crime free. Dennis ran for Govenor of California in 1998 to legalize cannabis for medical use, he didn't win but passed proposition 215, which did legalize medical cannabis use. We met him last year in London at the cannabis march. The house was a great place ...

Arrived in LA for the 4th July, and stayed at a hostel on Hermosa Beach for the first night. dissapointingly, the hostel was run by a french woman so she wasn't celebrating the 4th july. Next day we moved to a hostel in Hollywood, and walked down hollywood boulevard to see the walk of fame, and the handprints. On the 7th, we picked up our rental car, a MUSTANG!! we drove downtown to the LA gun club to go shooting. we hired and fired a 9mm beretta, a 9mm...