From Donna and Clyde: We are now sitting at San Francisco airport waiting for our flight to Auckland. The last two months have flown by too quickly, but Molly and Toby are ready to go home now and excited about seeing their friends again and getting back to school, rugby, netball etc. We have had a great few days wandering around San Francisco, riding the cable car, crossing the Golden Gate Bridge and walking to Sausalito before catching a ferry back across the ...

From Donna and Clyde: We have been off the grid for a while as we have been so busy, but we are nearing the end of a long and fun week of theme parks and shopping in Orlando, and fly to San Francisco early tomorrow morning. It is Memorial Day tomorrow and the 75th Anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge celebration weekend, so San Fran is likely to be in party mode when we arrive. We started our week of Theme Parks at Islands of Adventure at Universal, which ended...

From Donna and Clyde: We caught a train from Penn Station on Thursday morning and headed off to Washington DC. After the busy streets, traffic and sky scrapers of New York it was lovely to arrive at a city with a low skyline, wide streets, friendly locals and brilliant sunshine. Our apartment was located only one block from the White House so we dropped off our luggage and headed straight out and spent the afternoon with what seemed like every middle school in...

From Donna and Clyde: We are nearing the end of a hectic few days in New York. We arrived on Sunday afternoon and after over 2 hours clearing immigration at JFK, we were very relieved to finally make it into Manhatten and headed straight off to Times Square. On Monday morning, we started a race with the rain and headed straight down to the Staten Island Ferry for a trip across to Staten Island and view of the NY Skyline, the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. ...