Los Angeles After San Francisco we flew back to LA to spend the weekend at Trilby's. She took us to the Santa Monica Pier, and it took all afternoon to get there and back. LA is not a city I would want to live in. On our last day in LA we went to Six Flags, a rollercoaster park. We survived the X2, which is one of the most technologically advanced rollercoasters in the world, and was absolutely terrifying the first time around. There was also the Tatsu, which ...

San Francisco On our second day in the States we flew up to San Francisco, where we stayed for four nights. While we were there we walked up a lot of hills, rode the cable cars (which you could freely hang out the side of if you were standing - what happened to public liability in America???) and visited Alcatraz. We went to the cable car museum, which was probably the best value for money thing we did on the whole trip (it was free). The museum was built arou...

Day 1 - Sydney to America The first day of our trip was not so much one day as two. We'd stayed the weekend in Sydney and had a bit of a farewell dinner in Newtown on Saturday night. We flew out of Sydney on Sunday 13th December at 3pm, with Qantas on the A380. The flight was pretty good but neither of us slept much, despite being tired and moderately hung over from the night before. The inflight entertainment was extensive (and the in seat screens were huge);...