Hola,
You may have read updates from our road trip around the National Parks and we’d just like to explain we finished the road trip back on 19th September and have since visited San Francisco, driven the Pacific Coast Highway, partied in LA and wizzed through Miami before we ended our North America leg and began [...]

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We arrived in Miami at about 8:30am where we had about 4 hours sleep in 24 hours. All we wanted to do is sleep. It took over an hour on two buses to get to our hostel. When we arrived we were told that there was no room ready until 3pm which meant no sleep [...]

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We left Ventura our last stop on the Pacific Coast Highway before we get to Los Angeles after filling ourselves up and our bags on a free and full breakfast, we raced (obeying the speed limits) along the interstate to drop our bags off at the USA hostal bang in the centre of Hollywood and [...]

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What the Goonies Did
1.  Make car hire reservation on the day you require the car. $660
2.  Drive fast to save on travelling time. Free
3.  Get a speeding fine for doing 96mph on a 65mph speed limit road. $396
4.  Get photographs holding ridiculously expensive speeding ticket at Santa Maria Police Station. Priceless

The [...]

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On the list of 50 things to do before you die is to bike the Pacific Coast Highway. With a limited time constraint to travel the world in one year, here is the Goonies’ attempt to drive the Pacific Coast Highway in style instead.
Day 1

After blitzing San Francisco in 3 days it was time to complete [...]

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It´s a new day in San Francisco, but have moved out of the hotel an into a hostel. We was up early today as we had to drop off our car rental, check into our hostel, drop off our bags and get to the pier for the trip to Alcatraz. Thankfully, we made dropped the [...]

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As we moved closer to San Francisco, the weather was dull and seemed pretty foggy. Then we found out from the Lonely Planet guide to the USA that the temperature doesn’t usually get higher 70 degrees and can be foggy most of the time.
We arrived in San Francisco a day earlier than planned and we [...]

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The day starts off in Yosemite valley where only Chris is awake before 6am. No one moves when the alarms goes off and so Chris takes the liberty of taking the down the tent while the rest of us were sleeping in it. But boy did that work. It was freezing and lights were seeping [...]

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Seeing as we walked so many trails during the national parkathon, it feels only right to document in more detail our collective favourite hikes.
So here follows a short countdown of our hiking highlights…
8, Ooh Ahh Point, Grand Canyon
It´s only fair to mention our first successful hike. This was a short 1.5 hour round trip which [...]

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Back on the road again…
Sad that we had to leave behind the glory of Zion canyon, we plotted a California bound course and the whole un-red rockyness (woo!) of Yosemite National park. Our faithful drivers, John and Chris thought they would test their metal again the roads and undertake an epic 15 hour overnight journey [...]

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