La Quinta Inn San Diego-Oceanside

... scary as anything at Disneyland or Knottsberry Farm - geared for a much younger crowd.

Anyway am just going to post pics and videos and that's it, then to bed!
We fly out tomorrow evening...sad to be leaving but will be great to be in our own beds again.

Goodbye USA, until we meet again.

The Alvrez Family

... the powers-that-be have to save money by putting embarrassingly short doors on their stalls? And if the doors aren't short, they have huge gaps between the door and frame so that you still feel exposed to every person in the bathroom!
Arrived at the hotel around 6pm – gained an extra hour when we went over a time zone change – so at least a reasonably short driving day today....tomorrow, Legoland!
Bring on the roller coasters...

... She did advise it was illegal to fill into a water bottle but was happy to help out.
Back at the car and poured in the $2 worth. Cranked it over and.....nothing! I think the car was on a slight angle so back for another $2. Was a bit like ordering chips at home in the 90's.

The second $2 was enough to to get us over the line and fill up. Just another story on the long adventure and believe me this will be a long one form here on out. No hotels or anything booked from ...

... for comfort. Its rural. There are no side streets. There is no GPS saviour. Minutes tick. More minutes. Zac has the i-Touch for entertainment. He is happy. Cass is calm. I am anxious. Not the proper mood for a distance driver. 30 minutes, 40, 50. Inch by inch. Time ticks by. So much time that the i-Touch runs out of batteries. Anxiety increases. Then, a break. Traffic lights. A chance. We take it, making a couple of ...

... a boat ride. After about 3 hrs of city hiking, and plenty of less than enthusiastic welcomes at local marinas, I locked eyes ...

... thinks is pretty special to get his own "credit card" (well it looks like one) with his photo on it for Legoland - partcularly when it means he can come again as often as he likes for free (during the next twelve months) - that will be handy. He races in to the park and already knows what he wants to do first - drive the lego cars and get his licence. Yes, there are cars the kids can drive and no, they are not on the ...

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It didn't look good for swimming today as it was cool and cloudy in the morning. However, it started to clear up in the afternoon and was actually quite arm and sunny. The ocean was not so warm... 63 F... It was okay once we got used to it though. We probably swam for 30-40 minutes with a break in the middle to warm up. Other than that, we didn't do a whole lot. We walked around the beach area a bit, including a ...

... certainly was a great ship in it's day. We have really enjoyed our stay on it and highly recommend it as an interesting experiece if any of you are travelling this way in the future. Included in the pictures is one of one of the weddings I mentioned, the dinning room where we have had most of our meals and the wireless room. When talking to the two men on duty in the wireless room they were amazed when we ...

... break for freedom leaving a closely shaven head sitting directly on top of a thick body, eyes popping, mouths stretching and grimacing, oil and sweat everywhere. There is something overtly sexual about their enjoyment of being watched. I watch them trying to make out a hierarchical order amongst them in the progression of machine-use, allocation of barbells and such. Seeing no patterns in 30 seconds and boring of their charade, I abandoned my anthropological experiment for ...