Let’s Away from LA

Today we picked up our rental car for the next few days.  We wanted to hire an American car as we’re in the states so we booked a Jeep but instead we were upgraded to a Chevy Traverse. It’s quite a nice car to drive, all leather interior, goes pretty well, and more importantly heaps…

The three day Disney look

How do you know that you’ve had too much of a good thing? a) a roller coaster is a chance to get off your feet. b) the only real danger of going into a dark haunted house is falling asleep. c) you stand for an hour watching a great show only to wonder how long…

Disney California Adventure

Day 2 started a lot better.  Today we went to Disney California Adventure land which had a very different feel to it.  It’s a bit more … … I don’t really know.  American.  Rather than fairytale. Our original plan with the 3 day pass was 2 days at Disneyland and 1 at California adventure.   But…

Disneyland

What can I say about Disneyland? I really didn’t know what to expect and I think it has been so hyped over the years that the expectation was never going to be met. It didn’t help that we had the VIP treatment at universal studios where we didn’t have to line up at all for…

Hanging out in Hollywood

Well today was meant to be a cruisey day.  Sleeping in,  checking out late, then make our way down to Anaheim where we are staying for the next 4 days.  And just chill. Instead we were up early and on our way to Hollywood where we spent the next 5 hours checking out the sights…

Universal Studios

Today was all about the movies with a visit to universal studios. Before we left we organised our tickets and we thought we’d splurge and get front-of-line tickets which gives you some front of line entitlements to rides and shows but when we got there this morning we upgraded further to the VIP experience.  Yes…

Satuuurrrday

That turned out to be a very long day. (Sorry there isn’t many photos in this post. ) We got to the Canberra airport at about 9:15am on Saturday 6 July and did all the necessary checking in and waited an hour or so before we boarded our plane to Sydney. In Sydney it was…

Zero sleeps

So the day has arrived that we fly to the US. Somehow it still doesn’t seem real,  I guess by the time we touch down in the US it will become very real very soon. It screws with your head that we will get there an hour before we leave Canberra.  But at least we…

Introduction

Hi there This is a quick introduction and test of my new blog site. As my Avatar shows one of my passions is motorcycle riding and my current steed is a 2008 Kawasaki ZX14 (hence where Zed14 comes from).  Zed and I have done around 140,000km in the last 4 years and we are just…