Hello from San Francisco! I flew up here from Los Angeles on Saturday evening. The flight was super - very empty so I had the back of the plane to myself - I streched out and enjoyed a bag of goodies given to me by Helena & Roy (who I stayed with in San Diego). I had a really great time in San Diego, Helena drove me to loads of cool places up and down the Pacific coast - we spent a day in and out of fancy shops, to Hotel Del Coronado (a luxury beachfront ho...

Hello everyone, It's been a long time since my last journal entry and I have just read what I last wrote to see that I said I was in Yosemite NP instead of Yellowstone - oops! I think I wrote that one after a long day late at night on a slow computer somewhere, so yes I was in Yellowstone not Yosemite! I have travelled a long way west across the States since then. Yellowstone was great - we spent a whole day there on the 23rd seeing some of the major sights - O...

Hello from Yellowstone National Park - it's amazing! I think I wrote last on the 18th - the days go quick and we have travelled so far since then that there is a lot for me to update everyone about! Back to South Dakota and Mount Rushmore - it's an awe-inspiring sight, the four Presidents carved high up on a mountain, especially against a bright blue sky. We wondered round it for quite a bit and took plenty of photos (including a Saints shirt one!). The history ...

Hello everyone, A very quick update from me here, I'm in Mount Rushmore at the moment. I'm really enjoying my trip across the States. We've travelled a long way since leaving Chicago, across Wisconsin, Minnesota and now into South Dakota - a very long State. The scenery is amazing, its the heart of cowboy and Indian country and the North America Great Plains, there are praries and corn fields stretching as far as the horizon. We stopped at Badlands National Park...

Hello from Chicago, The city is amazing and I'm really enjoying my time here! This is probably helped by the fact that the weather is great - blue skies, sun and very warm, and I'm staying with my mum's cousin, Elizabeth, who has an apartment right in the centre of Chicago - along the bustling Michigan Avenue. The views from the apartment are stunning - like nothing I've ever seen from a living room window, and when you step out onto the street you're right in t...