We're writing this killing time before boarding our flight home. Jo & I spent New Years Eve in the bars on the Las Vegas strip. Just before midnight we went out onto the strip to watch the fireworks in the street outside the bellagio. To be honest, although the atmosphere was great, the bonfire fireworks at roundhay/battersea were bigger/better etc!! And the security/police could also learn a thing from us Brits on crowd management as trying to get back up t...

Well it's been a few days since I did an update but wanted to wish everyone a happy new year, and to confirm we arrived safely in Las Vegas after touring the Arizona wilderness Since last writing Jo & I have driven from san deigo to lake havasu, then onto the Grand Canyon for 2 nights before arriving in Vegas on thur. After a quick lap on the hop on hop off bus tour of san diego (which inc seeing where some like it hot & top gun were filmed) we set off...

After our first proper night out (ie we stayed out til midnight!) we had a lie in before heading to Starbucks for a Christmas coffee and croissant. We then headed towards the harbour for a wander in the 24oC sunshine. Jo is very impressed by the amount of dogs in San Diego, they seem to be everywhere. Liz was not impressed about the amount of dog sh*t! (it wasn't everywhere, in fact there wasn't a lot, but any amount is too much!)We're staying just up the street ...

Today we continued our roadtrip driving from LA to San Diego. We again ignored the sat nav to drive down highway 1 again. This detour was def not worth it! Despite it being called the pacific coast highway we drove for 2 hours through small towns (listening to the beach boys) before we saw any pacific or beach! When we eventually did find the coast we stopped for brunch in a pretty town called Huntington in Orange County (aka the OC!) We checked into the hotel a...

Jo and I started our day at Pinks Hotdogs - they're world famous (apparently) they were certainly quite nice & is a picture of Simon Cowell inside so not sure if thats enough to make them famous? We then boarded our hop on hop off bus again & headed to tour the downtown area of LA, driving through Korea town, Westlake, Chinatown & the fashion district. This part of LA predates Hollywood & was once a fashionable district, now all the once beautiful...