Day 13 – Unlucky for some
Had breakfast in the hotel this morning, buffet style. They had some weird gravy and steak sauce thing, I think that is down home cookin’ style. Didn’t try any though as I was more interested in the 5 different kinds of scrambled eggs they had. I tried the ham and cheese and also the capsicum [...]
Day 12 – A grand adventure
Had to wake up early as they had shifted our Grand Canyon flight pickup from 11.10am to 9.10am. So with only 6 hours sleep we blearily got on to the shuttle bus to take us to the airport. On arriving at the Vision Air terminal (or more accurately wharehouse) we were assigned our seats and [...]
Day 11 – Live long and prosper in the new year.
Had to say goodbye to the faithful Toyota Corolla today and it was a sorrowful parting. I took a quick drive around the parking lot to experience driving on the right hand side and I don’t know how Pauline did it. It was rather bizarre, I kept going to do things with my left hand [...]
Day 10 – Swingers in Vegas
Got up early, had a buffet breakfast in the Hotel Roosevelt where we had the best service we have had in America. We then headed for the souvenir shops to make some quick last minute purchases of things we had scoped out earlier in the trip. America is very much like New Zealand regarding shopping [...]
Day 9 – Universal Studios
Headed straight for the Kodak Theatre this morning because we wanted to get in on the earliest tour so we could spend the rest of the day at Universal Studios. Everything here opens at 10.00, so we managed to get on the first tour of the day at 10.30. The Kodak Theatre is where they [...]
Day 8 – Boulevarde of broken dreams
Woke up refreshed and renewed and ready to see what Hollywood had to offer. And what it had to offer was a sick and fluey ticket seller and a tour organiser who couldn’t count. We bought our citypass tickets to go on the 10.15 Starline tour of moviestar homes, and arrived at the designated time [...]
Day 7 – Hollywood Starlets
We awoke grumpily in the smelly Motel 6 and sought about getting our breakfast. Little did we know it would be a mission for us. We headed back to Santa Barbara and walked along the beach, but no place quite suited our requisites although a place called Sambo’s looked alright but was way too busy. [...]
Day 6 – Decadence and paupers
Hearst Castle Photo Gallery Before going to bed I was concerned about the lack of an alarm clock at the Mariner’s Inn in Cambria. Thankfully California was on hand to wake us up with a 3.2 aftershock from the earthquake earlier in the week just a few miles away. We’d been feeling minor aftershocks throughout [...]
Day 5 – Carmel, Christmas and Cambria
Woke up to a rainy Christmas morning in Monterey and had a wonderful continental breakfast. The Rosedale Inn was a treat for the two of us and we definitely spoiled ourselves. As we were leaving we saw a deer across the road and I managed to take a snap shot of it. We then took [...]
It pours, man it pours
Looks like our decision not to head to Lake Tahoe was a good one. Apparently the snow chains cost $75 and the roads are slick and snowy. It’s really windy and rainy outside, makes me just want to stay here in bed. We’re not sure where we are going to spend christmas though, probably somewhere [...]
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