Aymi’s Adventures

The best thing about California was obviously meeting up with Vix & Morph, although the convertible car was also pretty cool.

San Francisco was a beautiful city if very windy. We went on a boat trip under Golden Gate bridge and around Alcatraz, unfortunately we didnt get chance to actually land on Alcatraz and explore properly. Visited the lonely cypress tree – yess Vix it really is just a tree!  Also saw the painted (or pink if your names Vix) ladies!

Yosemite National Park is one of the most spectacular places scenerary wise, although I can now compare it suprisingly to New Zealand. The highlight for me was floating down the river Merced in a raft whilst eating squashed tuna and cheese sandwiches with cherry tomatoes on the side.  The weather was beautiful, soo hot, suprised we didnt get burnt whilst riding around on bikes!

Monterey was a cool town, really liked it here, apart from the hostel having a 2am (I think, cant remember now) curfew, which felt very weird.  Having to get home for a certain time was not what I came away for, and it was always just as the night was getting good.  Monterrey really didnt want us to leave when somehow the keys got locked in the boot of the car – which blonde bimbo could have done that!!  Oops!  So a couple os hours later we were finally on our way! 

We headed for Santa Barbara but after driving round every motel & hostel in the place realised we were never gonna get somewhere to stay here, it was a Saturday night and the town was heaving, looked like it would have been a really good night out too.  I did suggest sleeping in the car but it wasnt really an appealing idea after being sat in it for most of the day anyway!  We eventually found a motel in a town called Ventura which actually worked out really well as there was a fair on the next day which was pretty cool.

Hollywood was as expected, a bit of a dump, so after doing the obligatory sights we left and spent extra time in San Diego – definately a wise move, although I did like the hostel there (USA Hostel again) and the comedy show was ace. The obligatory sight for Martha consisted of the Beverly Wiltshire Hotel (I had no idea why this was famous until she explained it was in Pretty Woman?!), we also saw Rodeo Drive, the walk of fame, and of course the Hollywood sign.

San Diego was a great place, we started by staying at Banana Bungalow in Pacific Beach, then moved into the Gaslamp area and had a great night out around the area and met up with Sean who I met in Vegas and then stayed with Bailor who I met in Nicaragua.  All in all we had a fab time there, saw nearly all the beaches and parks around the area.  Sailed a hobby cat which was ace, although I wasnt very good at it.  Went to the Gilderport!!! and got the gigles lots, think we had a bad case of sleep deprivation!

After Martha and Vix left I drove round for a while, took the car back, tried to pay our parking fine – unsuccessfully and spent 8 hours in LA airport – nice!  just what you need before a 12 hour flight.

Adios to California – Rock on, alright, awesome, tomato, moo!!

Thanks for a fab time girls, theres probably loads I have forgotten since rewriting it, but it was definately the best 2 weeks x