We made it. We have arrived at last in New York, the Big Apple. We are staying in a nice hostel called Jazz on the Villa, which is technically in Harlem. We successfully met up with Cam in San Francisco and had a good day wandering around with him. We stayed in the city with Cam so we had to bid farewell to Colin and his boat and we set sail across the bay for San Francisco which was cool as there were great views of the Golden Gate bridge and of Alcatraz, unfo...

Well we have quite a story to tell and it starts way back when in Marahau New Zealand where we met Colin and Brian. Later on in New Zealand we met Colin and Brian again at Accents on the park in Nelson and as coincidence would have we met them driving around sunny Santa Barbara. That is the shorten abridged version but i am still in shock its so crazy that we should just run into them in a random town on the california coast. Colin very kindly offered to put us ...

So we are back in Los Angeles on beautiful Venice Beach after a 3 day trip to Vegas and the Grand Canyon. Toby had a go at surfing and has acquired a few scrapes but he had loads of fun and definately wants to do more.We left for Vegas on Sunday at 8am in a minibus with 10 other people and our driver Nick from Sussex, England. The drive to Vegas was 4 hours but we stopped along the way at a place called Barstow which is in the middle of the hottest part of the ...

Well it has been a while hasn't it. Just haven't had the time!!!!! So here we are in America +1, having met up with columbo when we arrived we are now a party of three. We are still in Los Angeles now but by the sea in an area called Venice at a super cool hostel 1 million times better than where we've just been. On sunday we have organised a tour to Las Vegas and the Grand Canyon which we are all looking forward to then after that its up the coast on a train t...

Well this is our last few hours in New Zealand, after which we will be flying to America to meet up with columbo who finally got round to booking our hostel last night!!!!! Cutting it a bit fine but its okay because his mum brandished blunt weapons at him. We are hoping to hire a car to drive around California in (money permitting) and then head over to the east coast after doing all of the touristy stuff. We have found quite a nice looking hostel in Hollywood...