Well we're back in LA for New Year and would like to wish everybody a Happy New Year and best wishes for 2007. On new years eve we are going into Santa Monica, where theres a celebration on Santa Monica Pier to see in the new year, which should be good. We arrived safely yesterday on one of the shortest flights we've both ever been on at just 35 minutes and one of the smallest planes we've ever been on, the width of the plane was only 3 seats wide, very cosy!! We...

We've had a really good time in San Francisco and the weather has been brilliant, its hard for us to believe its Christmas! Since our last journal entry we have been enjoying the sun and the amazing sights of San Francisco. If we have any advice for anyone visiting San Francisco it would be to take a walk over The Golden Gate Bridge. The bridge is quite an impressive structure and has a length of 1.7 miles (so maybe don't walk all the way across!!). It al...

Were here now in San Francisco, the flight from Los Angeles was only 1 hour, we can't believe were now in yet another big city. We are staying in the Layne Hotel, which is in downtown San Francisco and only walking distance to all the major attractions. Its a really nice hotel a bit of a treat from a hostel. Yesterday we went to Pier 39, which looks out over San Francisco Bay, we got a brilliant view of the famous Alcatraz Prison and the Golden Gate Bridge. T...

The flight from Chicago was only 4 hours, which seemed like a walk in the park, compared to our previous trips on the train. Our short trip to Los Angeles is nearly up and we've made sure we've done plenty in the 2 days we've been here. L.A is just a stop off for us before we go to San Francisco and Las Vegas and we will be back here for new year to get a flight to our next country, so we didn't have to cram everything into two days. L.A is so big...