As we drove onwards from San Diego, we climbed over mountains, and said goodbye to the green, and cold San Diego and hello to Desert, and heat! After a quick stop at a very quaint roadside café, we had a hell rising ride down the other side of the mountain, and watched as the temperature went up to 100 F. Now here came the problem, as the plan was to visit Joshua Tree on route to Palm Springs, but after driving all the way to the road that connects to Joshua Tre...

All stared well when we got on the unheard of Air New Zealand plane and realised we had picked well… two 'love' seats at the back, unlimited movies, a touch screen to order your wines, to browse menus, and every US Sitcom you can think of. Needless to say we stayed awake the whole flight, and didn't realise until after the 3 hours at customs, that we had been awake 24 hours. So picking our mustang from the car hire company was relatively quick, we settled on ye...