Well we spent a day in Vegas at the Bellagio and Paris deciding on the kind of life we want to live when we make our millions - you never have to leave these hotels to do anything - everythings inside the building! Ooh and i won $10 worth of quarters on one slot machine! Didnt bother with more than one - decided to take the money and run!

L.A. was a bit of a bust really - was in bed ill for the majority of it just hearing tall tales as everyone came back from their days and nights out to fill me in. We had a lovely girl Jenny in our dorm who was a stilt walker and fire eater out here to be in a porn film! Talk about allsorts! We also met a girl called Emma from Hastings who was lovely and kept Sarah company when she wasn't working - she was on her way to the cook islands and was the only one of us brave enough to try beef jerky! (apparently it tastes like peppered shoe leather!)

Did manage to see a bit of Santa Monica beach on the last morning which was really pretty and clean looking and yet had the largest homeless population i've seen yet just living on the beach.

Wasn't all bad though - managed to see Sin City while we were there and alkthough i still felt like i was going to puke (to use an Americanism!) it was a great film and perfect to see in L.A.

Next was San Luis Obispo a lovely quaint Californian town where i finally got my appetite back and we ate at a lovely little cafe called louisas where you ate at the counter just like in the movies! The hostel was small but friendly and comfortable - we ended up talking politics with a woman from Boston who could not stop apologising for her country having voted Bush back in!

Two days later and we were on the road to San Fransisco - absolutely gorgeous scenery - so green compared to all the desserts and tumbleweed we've had all the way through the south. I had my 60's CD on the I Pod and to the strains of "are you going to San Fransisco...." we arrived at the pier, the Golden Gate Bridge towering in the distance.

Beautiful, the place is gorgeous and has such a laid back quality to it - the perfect city...

To be continued...