After another 6 o'clock start we made our way back down to Chinatown to catch a bus for a 2 day 1 night Niagara Falls tour.   We had…

We decided to forgo the pleasures of the Greyhound bus and get the bus to New York with Bolt Bus, as fantastic bus …

We had chosen to fly from Miami to Washington DC as we didn't really fancy the 'several days on a bus' route, so we…

We arrived in the Everglades just after lunchtime and spent much of the afternoon realising once again that we coul…

After a somewhat difficult journey involving lots of local buses, we found ourselves in Miami South Beach. I hadn't realised that South Beach was…

We flew from Las Vegas to Fort Lauderdale, connecting In Housten. We actually flew over the Grand Canyon which was …

Our last day in Las Vegas was a bit of a rush to see the things which we hadn't managed to on the first day. We…

On our second full day we had decided a long time ago to go to the Grand Canyon and booked a bus tour. We were …

*I split this into 3 parts as it was WAY too long!!* We got to Las Vegas on a $25 Chinatown bus instead of the…

As we got the bus up towards Hollywood is became busier, more people, more activity and we became more optomistic. Our hostel was just off Hollywood …

Once we arrived at our hostel in Venice beach we quickly realised that it was not the same style as what we had bec…

Well we've come to the end of our road trip, we have to say goodbye to Chrissie the Chrysler, we've clocked up 494 miles and I only drove on th…

When we moved to hostel number 2 in Chinatown, I finally understood about the hills in San Francisco. Previously I had seen them from afar, seen the …

Our journey down continued thankfully uneventfully. We arrived in downtown San Francisco at about 1.30am, having been on the road since 2pm. …

We arrived in Portland on Monday after another long journey on buses and a new set of Greyhound weirdos. The woman …

We got the ferry across from Victoria yesterday and spent today in Port Angeles before we head to Portland tomorrow.Port Angeles has not always been …

It's been quite a flying visit to Victoria, we've had about 2 ½ days here. The ferry ride over here was fantastic,…

On Sunday we went to the aquarum. We have passed quite a few aquariums on our way but Cat had recommended this one …

Wednesday we decided to hop across Puget Sound on the ferry to Bainbridge Island (on the recommendation of the old beardy guy sitting next to me …

Seattle has a very different atmosphere to it than Chicago. It feels more laid back, although I wonder whether this…

Technically I'm not going to write about Seattle at all, because we only arrived earlier today and we haven&#39…

Brrrrr, we're not going outside today until absolutely necessary, the wind is registering 8 on the Beaufort Scale, giving a temperature of -23. Arg…

We have been in Chicago for 4 days now, and moved today to the hostel after staying in a hotel. We have a private r…

Another blog entry where I don't really know where to start! We left Toronto bus terminal as planned after usi…

We have been in Ottawa for over a week now and it really is time to move on. The Winterlude festival has been really fun, we went to the Jacques Cart…

We arrived in Ottawa on Thursday, the first time we have arrived somewhere while it's still been light and what a difference it made! We found our ho…

Three hostel dorms. Three wierdos. Each worse that the previous. We start in Toronto with the woman who has been living there for about 4 months.…

We decided to spend our last day in Montreal going up Mont Royal to the North of downtown as the views of the city were supposed to be stunning. Wh…

We arrived in Montreal on Tuesday in the dark, in the middle of snowstorm. The first thing we did was get lost, swiftly followed by nearly getting ru…

What do you do when the wind chill is causing it to be -22? Honestly I have never felt cold like it, it feels like someone is slapping your face. The…

Wow, where do I start? Well on Thursday we headed up to Haliburton on the coach, not really knowing what to expect, so a little bit nervous. The jour…

Yesterday we woke to snow! It was a very British type of snow, about an inch thick and melted on the pavements by lunch, but it was s…

Well we had an interesting journey here, largely due to my thermal over-excitement (note to self, you do NOT need 12 layers in Gatwick airport!). Aft…

So far so good! Despite writing many lists, and lists of lists, we ended up dumping everything on the bed and packing until it was all gone! I'm posi…