Embassy Suites Brea - North Orange County

... were also a few random girls travelling alone. 1 girl from Birmingham, a Japanese girl and a French Canadian. You can imagine the difficulty we had communicating so we all just got drunk instead. My last day I planned to bum around the pool and was joined by the Canadian girl who turned out to not only be very pretty but fun too. It was her idea that we start on the beers by the pool at 10am and that was the tone of the day to come. After several beers I ...

... than I thought it would be.  The problem mainly lies where you've gotten lost, you're trying to turn to change direction, check road names and somewhere in the chaos your subconcious takes over and you try to get onto the "right side" of the road.  I didn't cause any accidents though and only made that mistake once, I became very concious of what I was doing after that.  San Francisco was exactly what I'd imagined when we got there in the dark and my first challenge was to get parked ...

... ride as it wasn't very busy. I can't say I was surprised by the lack of people as the challenge on this ride was the lockers beforehand. As it was a rollercoaster they wouldn't allow bags on and so provided lockers. All sounds fine until you get a room full of people fighting rubbish technology to attempt to open fingerprint activated lockers. It either wasn't reading peoples fingerprints or wouldn't open them when it did, but there was ...

... the wishing game...wishing for something nice around the next corner or over the next hill, it seemed to take the mind off the distance and after a while we arrived at a small roadside motel type place and rested our feet. We had walked a massive 43km that day, 26 miles in total, but now we were just 25km away from the Catherdal in Santiago. A small lie in and weŽd hope to arrive early afternoon the next day.

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Our 10 hour + drive down the coast ended at 12:30am on Aug. 17. We arrived at Tootoo's (= Pantea's grandmother) tired but looking forward to a week of fun and relaxation with Pantea's family. During our time there, we had some great adventures and enjoyed lots of yummy food (thanks especially to the culinary skills of Tootoo, Uncle Behzad, and Firoozeh joon!). Our family adventures consisted of the ...

... only to find out that we went booked on our 12.30pm flight. it seemed at all 3 of us had got the day wrong and we were actually meant to fly out the day before!!! i started panicing because the lady behind the desk and our travel agent in aus told us that if we missed a connection the rest of the ticket would be cancelled. not cool considering we were all low on funds and we would have lost about 2 grand! We decided to act ...

... the show was a Soap Stars Special with stars from the Bold and the Beautiful, Days of out LIves, The young and the Restless and General Hospital. Of course not knowing any of these soaps we didn't recognise any of them! Apparently they are quite major stars though! The bloke that presented it was in Home Improvement - he played Tim Allen's co-host on the DIY show (bearded dude)! After the show we headed back to the hostel where I got my shuttle to LAX!

... late comer, entering with her. I guess I need to practice up on my meditation, because sitting crossed legged on the floor for 45 minutes in silence was a little tough for me. It was a little tough for someone else as well, as snoring broke the silence. After a stretch and Q & A section, Lan came up and introduced herself. I guess I wasn't that hard to pick out from the crowd. She asked where I was going to be until the midnight flight. I explained that I was ...

... when things are so expensive, they don't have price tags, "if you have to ask then you can't afford", yeah yeah shut up, get a life, and then give me one. Caught the bus back to Santa Monica and walked down to the beach for the sun setting over the Santa Monica mountains, the haze and smog of the city making mad skies, very cool. Had another shuffty around the pier and walked up to 3rd Street, the main drag of Santa Monica. The trees are lit with fairy ...