La Quinta Inn & Suites Thousand Oaks Newbury Park

The rain had to come some time and on day 112 the rain is catching up for the fact the this is only the 12th wet day in all that time. It is biblical out there and I am sure that it will ease up until late tomorrow. It is also dumping a whole load of snow on the mountains so I think national park action up there is definitely out of the picture....

Yesterday was a very long day V Austraila were fantastic the plane was very comfy and food good. Whilst I tried 4 times to get us a seat up grade no such luck, we did score a seat between us which was great! My lovely new Husband rubbed my feet most of the way awww. Arrived after 13 hours and 45 min of flying to a very busy LAX ! Arrived at our ...

On Saturday morning, I woke up to the blasting of the wind against the window. This made getting out of bed much easier than the morning before. We had planned on getting an early start to the day and heading up to the Venice and Hollywood area for the good weather. I struggled to move even at 9 a.m., after all, the dog was quite the cuddle budd...

This morning we left the hotel at about 9am and headed down US Hwy 1 towards Santa Monica. We had to stop for gas about 9:30, and the woman said it would take us about 4 hours to get as far as Santa Monica. We started looking at the map for shortcuts, because both of us have pretty much had our fill of the road. So we decided to follow the 1 to ...

I think it's time I actually write something in my blog. The Tour is almost over and all that's left is to get back home. For some reason I really didn't feel like writing during this trip. I had the intention of writing in my blog and documenting what happened each day. I even had thought of what I was going to say. I think it was actually goin...

Well gang....this is the end of the road. Bob and I have had a blast on our "excellent adventure" and we hope you have too. I'm so glad to have spoken to many of you who informed us that you thoroughly enjoyed our "blog". We had a lot of fun writing it and were really hoping you had fun reading it as well. Maybe it will spur you to travel and ke...

Day 7 The seventh day was rich. Taylor invited me this big youth event sponsored by the SGI that was happening at the World Culture Center in Santa Monica. He informed me that he would be helping out as event staff (called Soka Group, behind the scenes youth training group) for the event. Taylor Roth is a friend that I met at the Florida Nature ...

Two more days!! Just two more days before we leave for our adventure. Exciting right?! Well oddly enough, I haven't been really thinking about it until this past weekend. A few months ago, I was brimming with anticipation. But for some reason the excitement started to dissipate and I started to lose myself in the ******** we all go through on a ...

Typical kiwi! Arrive in a new place and want to see as much as possible. However hunger and jet lag made me limit my first adventure in Santa Monica. So, down to the Santa Monica pier I went. Strolled in the sand, passed the joggers and roller bladers, and came across "muscle beach". There are gym rings, climbing frames and ropes. There weren't...

Afternoon greetings from the City of Angels! The flight over on Friday was great, we had 3 meals and watched 3 movies and arrived around 30 minutes early! As instructed we hopped on the super shuttle but it took us on a tour of California before we actually rolled into the hostel. It's seriously h-a-w-t here, as expected but we had a good stroll...