Cardiff airport
29 april 2016, Wales ⋅ ⛅ 9 °C
First pit stop: Dublin!
Dublin hotel
29 april 2016, Irland ⋅ ⛅ 4 °C
Made it to Dublin, staying the night and then onwards to London...
London airport
30 april 2016, England ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C
Nearly there.....
Hilton San Francisco
1 maj 2016, Förenta staterna ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
I made it!
I had to wait 2 freaking hours in customs though!
Wonder how many times my bag went round the bag collection :P
Got to the hotel, had some food and went to bed (at around 6am ourLäs mer
San Francisco
1 maj 2016, Förenta staterna ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
First day went well!
Rode the tram, saw some sea lions, had ice cream, went on a submarine and took Lucky the dog for a walk.
Alcatraz
2 maj 2016, Förenta staterna ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C
Today we rented bikes and cycled over the gate bridge.
Which was fairly tiring :P
Then we took a ferry over to Alcatraz!
The plan was to rent a car today but we were late and it closed, whoops!
Monterey
3 maj 2016, Förenta staterna ⋅ 🌙 13 °C
Not done too much today.
Picked up the car and drove down highway 1 to Monterey.
Checked the place out and had some food at Bubba Gump.
Turns out I suck at putting sun lotion on (see picture) so aLäs mer
Aquarium + other animal stuff
4 maj 2016, Förenta staterna ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C
So today we went to a very cool aquarium where we saw plenty of fish, sea otters and octopuses.
We then made our way to San Simeon on highway 1.
Made a few pit stops, there was a cool beach with aLäs mer
San Simeon
5 maj 2016, Förenta staterna ⋅ 🌙 14 °C
Today we saw Hearst's castle which was more like a mansion although very impressive on the inside!
When he was alive he had his own personal zoo so when he died they were mostly sent to zoos but someLäs mer
Disney!
6 maj 2016, Förenta staterna ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
Today was all about Disney :)
I didn't take too many photos but had a good day.
Park was open from 9-9 (long day!) And we pretty much went on all of the good rides.
I managed to lose my phone so was aLäs mer
Hollywood
7 maj 2016, Förenta staterna ⋅ 🌙 13 °C
To start the day we went to Griffith observatory.
This was pretty cool, we got to see the city below as well as the Hollywood sign.
We also saw planetarium show which was fun although made me a bitLäs mer
San Diego zoo
8 maj 2016, Förenta staterna ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
The zoo was fun!
We bought back stage tickets which was an extra £80 (Hywel reluctantly agreed) but we got to see a few animals up close.
We also got to feed flamingos which was awesome and aLäs mer
Leaving San Diego
9 maj 2016, Förenta staterna ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
On our way to our next destination (Palm Springs) we stopped by a mall where I bought awesome pokemon socks from hot topic!
Then we stopped at a beach to chill out for a bit and then onwards to PalmLäs mer
Joshua tree national park
10 maj 2016, Förenta staterna ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
Today was spent checking out the national park.
Quite a different background from the coast!
It's warmer here but it looks pretty awesome :)
Viva Las Vegas!
11 maj 2016, Förenta staterna ⋅ 🌙 22 °C
The day started with seeing what we think is a Google driverless car.
From there we bought some space Jersey and saw the world's largest thermometer.
Then we went to a sand dune, Hywel went up at theLäs mer
Las Vagas
12 maj 2016, Förenta staterna ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
So we chose to have a chill out day today which was nice as I had gotten Hywels cold :(
Chilled out near the pool, did some gambling (won like $60 but then lost most of it :P ) then went to seeLäs mer
Grand Canyon
13 maj 2016, Förenta staterna ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
First stop was Hoover Dam, was pretty cool although not sure why it has so many visitors...
Then on wards towards the grand canyon but we stopped by Bedrock to see the Flintstones first!
It was OK ILäs mer
Death Valley
14 maj 2016, Förenta staterna ⋅ ☀️ 13 °C
Death valley is hot... really hot :|
So the temperature got to around 43C which is way too hot for me.
It didn't help I was feeling quite ill this day :(
All that aside it was pretty awesome, and itLäs mer
Driving
15 maj 2016, Förenta staterna ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
(I need to catch up a bit!!!)
Not much happened this day, our aim was to get to Sequoia National Park
Took a cool picture of a tree though so I hope you enjoy that one :)
Sequoia National Park
16 maj 2016, Förenta staterna ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C
Home of the giant Sequoia's, I learnt a lot about this tree on this trip :P
Apart from that there was lots of pretty views, got to drive through one of the trees and I saw a bear!















































































