What time is it there?!

Well it is now time to leave North America and head to another hemisphere. We have travelled 4800 miles, we've checked and this is 400 miles more than the combined length of the English and Welsh coastlines. To do this amount at home we would have been stuck in traffic for at least half of the time! Here, we saw only one real traffic jam (the LA stuff was at least moving albeit rather dangerously!) and we managed to nip on to the slip road and take an alternative route so were weren’t affected. We have driven for miles and not seen another car .... if only the M25 was like that!

California is a state of many contrasts, where beautiful scenery meets the ocean, where the weather is perfect for most of the year, where obesity and stick thin glamour fight for front page news and where movie stars really do become governors.

We’ve also met plenty of really nice, intelligent, friendly people who are nothing like obnoxious, obese American stereotypes you may envisage (you need to go to Universal Studios to meet them!) and certainly prove that you can’t judge the country by it’s government.....

Our experience has been wonderful and we have been blessed with some spectacular scenery, magnificent memories and numerous ‘firsts’, ‘longests’, ‘largests’ and ‘tallests’. You name it and we have probably seen its, oldest, tallest, largest, longest and highest versions. Was this really the first toilet that Princess blah on her first state visit from blah occupied ......... you betcha!!!!!!!

Thanks America. Have a nice day.......... or should we say Adios as English seems to be the second language in this state, not that any politician would ever admit it!