Entry 7 of a trip titled: Gemma's World adventure - Part 1 USA & Peru

Hello! I have finally set off on part 1 of my world trip. For the next 7 weeks i will be with my friend Alice for a road trip around California, then we head over to Peru for the final three weeks. It is from here i will then be headding off on my own so come back for part 2!

San Francisco has all the best that America can offer- Good food, friendly educated people, great weather and a sense of culture, coolness and taste. My first night started with the Hostel pub crawl. Here I made a few friends from the hostel, including an Australian girl called Megan, who I spent the next few days with. Went on huge walk the nex...

Last night we had booked a tour of San Francisco with this guy called Dylan who lives in San Fran and takes a mini bus with about 12 people and shows them his favourite spots and the golden gate bridge etc. The tour started at 10 and all the other people in the tour were from our hostel. We went and explored all the different neighbourhoods. It'...

ok folks, it's been a while since the last post... the weather finally turns out to be as it should be and there was heaps to do in San Francisco...but I thought I should give you a short update about what happened last week. getting around in sanfran is quite easy, but it's definitely not walkable anymore. too many hills and a lot bigger than a...

San Francisco baby, oh yeah!! Well I sound excited but this isn't my first time here. Many of you may not know this but I stayed here for 2 nights before heading to Seattle as a stopover, but all I managed to do in those 2 days was read the rest of the Amber Spyglass and walk around the huge shopping centre and trying not spending a fortune in A...