Ok, so after we landed in Picton on the South Island, we got to speaking to our bus driver who had flown with us. He was called Nemo (all drivers had nicknames). He was pretty cool and we spent the next 2 weeks with him as our driver.  Everybody liked Nemo because he was our age and wanted to get drunk and party as often as possible.Our first stayover was in Abel Tasman, famous for its boat tours. I took the next two days to recouperate from a...

Righto....time to crack on wiith New Zealand. Luckily our plane worked and got us to Aukland from Fiji in one piece. We spent around 3 days there doing a little shopping and trying to plan what we'd do for the next 5 weeks or so. Luckily there was a travel desk in our hostel and the girl there suggested we go on the Stray travel adventure. So we signed up for that, which meant we got bussed around all the major attractions and some less well known ones too. T...

Hello all....well, i'm catching up on this journal business. We made it to Fiji with no problems...except for Chris who, despite being fully aware of the problem while in America, arrived with no shorts or sandals. We touched down at 5.30am and even then the heat was intense. We had booked into the Beach Escape Villas in Nadi (pronounced Nandi) and spent about 2 days there. Our resort manager booked us into a number of resorts on the Yasawa Islands which is a...

Chapter 2....well, this begins in Boston. I really enjoyed Boston, it's a very cool place to go. We spent 3 nights here which wasn't really enough to explore the city properly....well, maybe it is for normal tourists but when you consider we spent our nights drinking and mornings recovering the time kinda ran out quickly. We did manage to do a few things though which were good. We found an amphibious tour boat which drives around all the touristy and famo...

Ok, i've skipped ahead a couple of weeks to San Fran. from Asheville we went to Nashville for Chris' 29 th birthday....an incredibly messy night, with very little remembered by any of us as to what happened. What i do remember about the town was that it was very cool and well worth visiting. The bars have great live music in them. Memphis was pretty cool as well....although I preferred Nashville and would have liked to have stayed longer there. the music ...