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Heyyyyyyy everyone.........as usual, not got much money so will just get down as much as I can!!!! Oh my go...we are on the biggest road trip in the world!!!! Now for those of you that know me well, you know I love a good road trip, but seriously this has to take the biscuit!!!! We have done over 2100 miles so far....and we can't afford Haribo....now just imagine that girls!!!!
So....I think I left you in San Diego....can't remember now, but anyway, from San Diego, we made our way back to LA.....via Carlsbad which is famous for it's flower fields....smelt gorgeous....but instead of taking that all in, we spent the day window shopping at the outlet!!! well Dena didn't window shop so much - NINE WEST is all I have to say....half price!!!! How good was I restraining....or....was it "how skint am I?"!!!!!
On the way back up the freeway, I had the bright idea of popping back in to aunty Lin's to say Hey to Zoe as I knew she had arrived from the UK...well....we were about 5 mins from their house at 6ish....took the wrong turning on the freeway and ended up taking 2 hours to coprrect it....we arrived at 8!!!!! So much for a quick "hey"!!!! So lovely to see Zo at Lin's....can't wait to do Disney with the family next week.....a definite "home pang" after seeing her xxxx
Anyway, we set off then to our hostel in Venice Beach....hmmmm not so cool there.....as we read in the lonely planet guide afterwards!!! haha there is a lesson there!!!!
So....up in the morning and off we go to Vegas!!!! Man....that was a long drive.....we broke it up by driving through Hollywood & Beverly Hills...you know as you do!!!! Kind of surreal...we stopped outside a few of the houses just to take them in....WOW!!!! So then off we go....through the mountains and the Nevada dessert to TOY TOWN!!!! What a completely crazy place....didn't feel real at all.......we stayed at a hostel/motel.....I can't find the words to describe it....odd, weird, had a strange eery feeling....might of had something to do with the odd balls there and the mercedes jacked up outside our room with what looked like someones jumper hanging out from under the bonnet!!!! (Been watching too many movies eh!!!) - more on this later.......Anyway, we stayed the 2 nights, did the "vegas" thing....not the ladies obviously but the gambling and the open mouthed sight seeing......truly have never seen anything like it in my life......we watched the dancing water.......WOW.....the Bellagio is just stunning as are all of the hotels on the strip to be fair...........we then popped in to Tiffanys....just to see if they had a ball for my keyring....and I found a beautiful ring and necklace that I want....(of course I didn't I am a skint backpacker!!!), but we got locked in.....now where else in the world would you like to have that happen!!!???? Hehe!!!
We picked the "Sping break" weekend to embark on this leg of the journey so leaving Vegas on Sunday was fun to say the least....8 million people trying to get back to LA meant we had to stop at a random motel as it got too late to do the whole trip back....it was such a luxury, our own room, twin beds, our own bathroom....AND a TV.....full on session of "brothers and sisters" and some trashy US TV - PERFECT!!! Refreshed we set off the next day back to LA.....and UNIVERSAL STUDIOS!!! What a day - wicked....as anyone that has been will know....we took in all the shows and "Dena aka Lara Croft" went on the rides.....not me....I watched!!! Mum...I am getting just like you!!!!xxxx The special effects were wicked.....and I am having a love affair with Vin Diesel - it's a little one sided (mine), but they filmed all of them there so I was in my element with pics of him all over and the cars - WICKED!!!! The Waterworld show we saved until the end - OUTSTANDING!!!! (I am loving my capital letters today aren't I?!)......so worn out we head for Santa Monica....what a gorgeous place....we ended up staying here 2 nights too....the beach is stunning.....we hired some bikes....you have to see the pics of this....me on my lovely pink...very american bike...you know the kind that should have streamers on the handle bars!!! We laughed alot....or maybe...Dena laughed alot at me!!! Anyway....while we were here, we met the guy that works in the hostel we stayed at in Vegas....so we got chatting and I told him in my tactful way that I thought it felt strange there....so he then spills saying that a couple of people had recently died there!!! And that most of the people that were there had been living there for a while...some up to 15 years!!!! We had been staying at a homeless refuge!!! Ok, maybe a bit of an exaggeration!!! But it explained a lot!!!!
On our 2nd evening here, we went back to Hollywood and did the walk of fame, the chinese theatre and the Kodak...AND got pics of the Hollywood sign - awesome!!! Except that I came face to face with Freddie Kruger (this is like my worst nightmare...I still can't watch scary films beacause of him...when I used to bunk off school - I mean in free lessons - at Richard Waldings house, we used to watch it....SCARY!!!), and then Chucky appears - my second worst nightmare.....anyway, I think I have exorcised these ghosts and now can move on with my life!!! haha!!!
So yesterday we headed off through Malibu, Guadalupe and Santa Barbara...Dena is a fan of "the Hills" and apparently they love it there so we checked it out!!! It was again gorgeous, very mediteranean and then we headed further up the coast and spent the night in a quaint small town.....after checking out some awesome sand dunes...
Today, we have driven the famous 1 highway along the Californian coast and arrived in Monterey for one night before headiing to San Francisco for my final 2 nights....we are both feeling like mingers, my hair looks like I am a yetty, I feel like I have lived in the same clothes for a year and we are exhausted but what a wicked experience.....note to self : will bring my own supply of haribo if I ever do this kind of thing again!!!!!
The countdown is on....less than 3 weeks to go....trying hard not to think about it too much, altho on the Vegas drive thats ALL I thought about.....there is only so much dessert you can take in!!!
Will see you very soon.............and will get the pics up as soon as I am in San Fran, the internet in these small places won't handle it....
Take carexxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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