Hi all! Am a bit hummm. . . today! Have been trying to sort out the US leg and it is all a bit more complicated. Have sorted out LA (am staying in Hollywood which sounds great but was speaking to a girl from Michigan last week and she said some bits are a bit grubby)and will do the rest next week. Ideally I was gonna do Vegas with LA then San Diego and San Francisco (my bridge fetish) but it looks like I can only do one or the other and there is not a l...

Hey! I have a confession to make. . . despite a bumpier start, I am starting to fall for New Zealand. The sea safari today was absolutely amazing and (apart from the skydive), the views were the most amazing I've probably ever seen. Better then the Blue Mountains, the Japan snow. It is another world out there on the ocean. We were out there for five hours. As it was a safari, there was no guarantee of seeing anything and the search area was 2000km wide so...

Hi from the 'City of Sails'!It was 19 degrees yday. Not bad for the middle of autumn and no rain. . . yet!There are boats, boats and more boats here. The enthuasism for the water must be a bit infectious though because I am dying to go out there now and do all the sailing things but they are quite expensive so am easing myself in and tomorrow, weather permitting(!), I am spending the day dolphin and whale watching.Auckland is nothing like any of the other...

Hi everybody! Last day in Australia today! Mixed feelings. Was almost balling to mum and dad yday about what on earth I'm gonna do when I get home. I have been waiting for this lightening to strike and everything to be sorted and nothing had struck but then just�today I was offered a job (well,kind of. very informally) here in Sydney in one of the local travel agents but I�have not got a visa or anything and am off to...

Hi!First of all, thank you for all the e-mails. I love getting them. Sometimes opening my e-mail is like going to the doormat on my birthday, thank you everyone and keep it up!Well I went to the Blue Mountains yesterday and they really are blue. Much bluer then it seems in the photo above. I took so many pics of my own to show you when I get home,sorry! The mountains are covered in eucalupts trees which produce eucalypt oil, this rises in to the air and then the ...