Okay so I actually arrived home rather a long time ago now but wanted to just post a final entry to mark the end of my trip (albeit slightly late). I wanted to thank everyone (well almost everyone -I’m sure people noted the exceptions) who I met on my travels and who enhanced the whole […]
Read the rest of Home in England
The routing may sound slightly odd here but that’s as my initial round the World ticket was from San Francisco to Chicago and, as you may have gathered, I changed my routing to meet up with Chuck. I had originally planned to spend some time in San Francisco but half decided to see L.A. properly […]
Read the rest of Tuesday 30th December – L.A. to San Francisco to Chicago
We got up and Brad and Chuck seemed to have slightly different views about the things that needed to be done during the day. After they had one of their married couple type arguments Chuck, "accidentally" managed to drive to "the Standard", one of his favourite hotels. We checked in and the place was actually […]
Read the rest of Saturday 27th to Monday 29th December – L.A.
We said our Goodbyes to Claire, gathered our things and headed back to Los Angeles. Once back in the city we took the Lexus back to Brad. Having chilled out with Brad for a while and explored a little more of the city, Brad cooked and I decided to go for a walk. Brad had […]
Read the rest of Friday 26th December – Back to L.A.
Chuck had previously called his grandmother a few days earlier to warn her that he would see her for Christmas but I was still slightly concerned about the prospect of her having a heart attack when he pressed the intercom and informed her that he was outside her property. Chuck had described his grandmother as a […]
Read the rest of Thursday 25th December – Christmas with Chuck and Grandma
It got to 11AM which was slightly concerning as Chuck was meant to be collecting me at ten. I borrowed someone’s mobile and called Brad who expressed concern that Chuck had not arrived having left an hour earlier in his car! As I was on the phone Chuck walked in and it was cool to […]
Read the rest of Wednesday 24th December – Christmas Eve, Chuck and leaving Los Angeles (temporarily).
I woke up after a very cold night’s sleep as the heater didn’t work in my room, and headed out on the shuttle bus towards the airport. I got a local bus with a surprisingly helpful and friendly driver, which was in stark contrast to those I had met in Miami. I was enjoying listening […]
Read the rest of Tuesday 23rd December – Lonesome in L.A.
The following day was my re-planned flight to Los Angeles. It was an early flight and I wasn’t exactly planned or in good time when I left. As a result I was unsure of the plans for when I arrived in L.A. and also when Chuck would be arriving. I was cutting it very fine […]
Read the rest of Monday 22nd December – Miami to Los Angeles
On the Saturday I woke up with a rather fuzzy head and packed my things so that I didn’t have to stay at the hotel in the airport area and could move to a different area of town. Having hastily packed my things I dragged myself and my bags to the local shop to get […]
Read the rest of Saturday 13th December to Sunday 21st December – South Beach, Miami
In the morning I got the bus to downtown Miami. Well, when I say I got the bus I did so despite some particularly grumpy bus drivers one of whom screamed at me when I didn’t give my transfer ticket to him. Mid-journey, not really knowing where I was going, I got off and decided […]
Read the rest of Friday 12th December – Miami