I arrived in San Fran at about 10am on Sunday morning....a cool 5 hours before I actually left Sydney, not bad!! Wandered around the airport for a little while and found a shuttle to take me to the hostel. Met another Australian lady on the shuttle who'd come to San Fran to do an art course. Somewhere between the airport and her hotel one of her...

The Greyhound ran overnight, so I arrived in San Francisco on Saturday afternoon. The bus stations were chaotic because of all the weather-related cancellations. I met some interesting people on the bus, but mostly I just slept. Once I got there, I checked in at the Pacific Tradewinds hostel, took a shower, then headed out to find some grub. On ...

San Francisco is the first and only place on the whole trip I have been before. The reason for my return was to visit my family in Paolo Alto, a University suburb of the San Francisco. Another reason was to do some of the things I couldn't afford to do when I was last here, on a summer long tour of America during University. This time round I go...

Entry 66 of a trip titled: To have a great time travelling around the world. To meet new different friends and enjoy this holiday

Hi all First week in bangkok and start to get fairly sick of this city too busy. Heading for Hanoi on the 30th so cant wait for that. We were at this tiger temple place which was good. Got to sit with them. it was brilliant. Claire went straight in them fine but then later when i said to stand beside a cow she wimped out. Have got all of the trip to Ko tou and Ko phangan booked so cant wait for that. Well ill talk again soon Paddy