San Francisco, 6th - 10th June & 16th - 20th June 2010 - you might want to grab a coffee before you start reading this - it's a big one! We loved San Francisco so much that we decided to come back here for another 4 nights after our road trip, so we've had a total of 8 nights here and we still haven't fitted everything in. My favourite area in San Francisco by far is Fisherman's Wharf. It's got the infamous Pier 39, is full of gorgeous restaurants, bustling...

Californian Road Trip, Highway 1, 10th - 16th June 2010 We had just over a week between San Francisco and our stay in San Diego, so we decided to hire a car for a week and have a little road trip. :) Highway 1 is probably the most scenic road in America as it hugs the Californian coastline from San Francisco all the way down to LA. They say if you can drive in San Francisco you can drive anywhere. It is insane! Every other street is one way so you quite often y...

Train journey through the Rockies & Sierra Nevada, 4th - 6th June 2010 Wow, wow, wow. The best part about this was that it was completely unexpected. We were told we would see some nice scenery as would pass through the Rocky Mountains, but I only expected it to be for a few hours or so, and then pretty much a lot of nothing whilst passing from town to town. The train journey was for a total of 2 days and 6 hours, was non-stop scenery - as once we were th...

In order to make our way to the West coast from New Orleans we could either go along the bottom of the states and then up the West coast, or we could go up the middle and then across. We chose the latter option as we'd get to see more of the States and it would avoid any back tracking as we are flying out of LA. We also decided to break up the 20 hour train journey to Chicago and stop off in Memphis which was roughly half way. Memphis, 30th May - 1st June 2010 ...

New Orleans, 27th - 30th May 2010 In one word - WOW!!! New Orleans is not only the best place we've visited in the States, it's actually my favourite place I've ever been. I am definitely coming back here and probably for Mardi Gras. :) We had bit of a nightmare getting to New Orleans, with 3 trains taking over 2 days in total. The food car also ran out of food on the last journey (18hours) which became a 20 hour train journey due to the time zone change and ...