Cardiff airport
April 29, 2016 in Wales ⋅ ⛅ 9 °C
First pit stop: Dublin!
Dublin hotel
April 29, 2016 in Ireland ⋅ ⛅ 4 °C
Made it to Dublin, staying the night and then onwards to London...
London airport
April 30, 2016 in England ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C
Nearly there.....
Hilton San Francisco
May 1, 2016 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 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 ourRead more
San Francisco
May 1, 2016 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 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
May 2, 2016 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 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
May 3, 2016 in the United States ⋅ 🌙 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 aRead more
Aquarium + other animal stuff
May 4, 2016 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 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 aRead more
San Simeon
May 5, 2016 in the United States ⋅ 🌙 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 someRead more
Disney!
May 6, 2016 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 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 aRead more
Hollywood
May 7, 2016 in the United States ⋅ 🌙 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 bitRead more
San Diego zoo
May 8, 2016 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 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 aRead more
Leaving San Diego
May 9, 2016 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 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 PalmRead more
Joshua tree national park
May 10, 2016 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 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!
May 11, 2016 in the United States ⋅ 🌙 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 theRead more
Las Vagas
May 12, 2016 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 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 seeRead more
Grand Canyon
May 13, 2016 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 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 IRead more
Death Valley
May 14, 2016 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 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 itRead more
Driving
May 15, 2016 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 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
May 16, 2016 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 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!
