Packed everything, done some last minute things like laundry etc. Am feeling nervous again about moving on, think i got too comfortable being with the same people 24/7. Any hoo. Time to chill in fiji. The trek has been great. Exhausting but Exhilarating, have had many laughs and good times along the way,alot of great memories and made some great...

It was a pretty long drive to LA from Vegas but we checked in to our Anaheim motel about 4:30pm and then headed around the corner to Disneyland to buy our tickets for the next day.  The tickets cost $122 for 2 days entry which included the California Adventure park across the way. The next day we got up early and got to Disneyland just befo...

This is my final Saturday of rest before I really have to start packing.  The excitement comes and goes, as my mind hasn't really wrapped itself around the idea that I'm actually going to New Zealand in 2 days!  I've run all my last-minute errands in the past several days which is a relief.  Oddly, I've found myself announcing my ...

Unfortunately, our flight from Auckland was delayed by over four hours which left us very little time to explore LA as our flight out was the next day.  To add insult to injury our entertainment systems didnt work, so we had no movies for the 11hour flight. So some light moaning got us $50 duty free vouchers each so i got some lip-plumping ...

You ever get that thought "I have a bad feeling about this."? (yes, I'm quoting Star Wars)  It all started when my flight from Kansas City to LA was overbooked, so there was a chance I wasn't going to get on that flight.  But at the last moment, I was able to get on. Well, when I reached LA, the good part was that I only had a 3 h...

First stop is to recover from the plane trip with some chill-out time in the hotel pool. The pool seemed like a great idea but the local temperature at 20 C only did not support this. What a dull grey looking place this is! With seemingly endless grey concrete carparks and highways and grey skies to boot! We had a pleasant afternoon at Santa Mo...

(Gemma) Today we went on a trip to Universal Studios. I think all the kids must have gone back to school already as it was quite empty and we didn't't have to queue for anything which was ace. I screamed my head off on all the rides which Will found hilarious. The worst was this Van Helsing haunted house thing. I was screaming when something jum...

Still a little bit travel pod confused but as my first entry, I'm not in Thailand. This will be home, my starting point, in the little suburban town of La Palma. Yes, we have our own zip code, thank you very much!