4/10/03, 2300 Well, we've arrived!. After a very long walk through a less than great area we found the hostel...and it's quite nice!, sharing a room with a German, fairly clean, friendly staff, i'm impressed!. I won't write to much today as i'm knackered and so will write ****!. 5/10/03, 1430 The difference a nights sleep makes!. From feeling ve...

well since my last entry i have been to san francisco and back to la. san fran is an awesome city, but on first impressions i thought omg what am i doing here! we were in the tenderloin district which is a right dive, and the streets are literally filled with homeless people, most of whom are harmless but there are a few scary ones, like the one...

24th April 2008 After another fun filled morning of packing all of our stuff up again... we love packing. Some of the stuff we bought to use that the YWCA in Vancouver, ie the camping pots, plates etc, we haven't used since. Every other hostel has had a fully equipped kitchen. So it's a bit of a pain lugging it around with us, but as we all know...

25th April 2008 - ANZAC day We just did our own personal remembering in the morning for ANZAC day. We had a mountain of washing to do and the closest Laundromat was down the block in the direction that we didn't really want to go, but we went at about 10am so it wasn't too bad, and we still weren't in the worst part of the area either. Then we w...

26th April 2008 We headed off to Fisherman's Wharf today. We jumped on the bus and spent a bit of time looking around. It is a very tourist orientated place, and it was nice to be out of the Ghetto. We booked our tour of Alcatraz for Monday evening and we are really looking forward to that. From the Wharf we could see Alcatraz and the Golden Gat...

Hi All, I am in San Francisco, its really nice. the windiest city i have ever been to!!! i got burnt yesterday as it was so windy it felt like winter but it was really sunny! anyway i am staying in an area called the Tenderloin, its a dump! full of homeless and crazy people! there was a woman on the bus today who fell over nothing and was lying ...

Arriving in San Francisco was a bit of a shock to the system as it was cold and foggy and i'd spent the last 3 weeks in extreme heat! I decided to go back to The Golden Gate Bridge to see it with different weather (and more traditional for San Francisco). It looked just as spectacular as in the bright sunshine! I spent the afternoon at Alcatraz ...