goodbye for now

 We're going to start this post catching you up on our LA experience.

We've been in LA 10 days and although the weather

was less than desirable (we expected the famous Cali sun but instead 

got an average English summer day- overcast) we managed to

have an amazing time. 

Having done Disneyland in our first week in L.A, a trip to Universal studies was in order. We loved the Shrek, Mummy, Mininons, Simpsons and Jurassic World rides (Erin even conquered her phobia of having wet clothes on the Jurassic ride). But the highlight of our trip was the movie tour which took us around the studios and through 3D sets used in King Kong and Fast and Furious where we experienced an earthquake and flooded subway as well as being in a high-speed chase.  

 

We rented bikes and rollerblades and turned into typical Cali girls (though in Robyn's case probably not as graceful - balance is not her strong point) (and 

i'm not even sure being pulled along by Erin and Megan counts

as rollerblading). It took us up to the famous Santa Monica pier which was caotic and very American. We were lucky enough to be in the USA on 4th July but unluckily we are not 21 so we had to improvise with our celebrations. Our hostel organsised a huge BBQ (which we took full advantage of with our trusty pots as we have no money and are living off toast and eggs). We saw the famous Muscle Beach and skateboarding park and nicknamed all the boys after 'Prison Break' characters because we are sad. We ended the evening sitting on the beach watching the fireworks which were pretty 'rad'. We've spent the rest of our time in LA catching some rays (which was rare as it was so overcast here) and hanging out with the room 211 gang.

Its been 170 days since we left England, inexperienced

and pale we hopped on a plane to Bangkok not

having a clue what we were letting ourselves in for.

We can all agree these past 6 months have flown 

by and we couldn't even imagine doing half the things

we've managed to do on this adventure.

On this trip we've all managed to conquer either a fear

or tick off somthing from the bucket list, 

 Erin's favourite experience of the trip was to ride and

look after elephants in Thailand. Megan's favourite memory of the trip

was experiencing the travellers life, for example staying in hostels and

making friends with people from all over the world. Robyn's favourite

part of the trip was the adventure, waking up each morning and having

the freedom to decide that day what we were going to do. 

Although we can't wait to come home

and see family and friends, it's sad to see our adventure come to an end,

here's to next year's journey with the travelling trio.

 

   lots of love

Megan, Robyn and Erin

xx

chicken in a bucket, chicken in the beans

160 days ago we left for Thailand.

We now have 11 days until we leave for home.

I think it's fair to say that we have all started to miss

home now, it might be the fact that we know it's less than

two weeks away until we see our friends and family or it might

just be that we're homesick, either way we're missing

rainy, boring, cold England!

Since our last post we've been travelling down the 

West Coast of America, we've stopped off at both San Jose and Monterey.

Monterey is a seaside town where Americans go on holiday similar to Brighton but full of clam chowder and national parks. After travelling for 

6 months you soon pick up 'tricks of the trade' and so when someone

offers you free food, don't even think of the answer you say yes.

Monterey is famous for it's clam chowder and so outside

every restaurant there are free tasters, Megan and Robyn took it

as a personal mission to try every free clam chowder bowl

there was throughout the whole pier and so once we were at the end

we felt like there was no type of chowder we hadn't tried.

 We spent 2 days in Big Sur - walking through the ancient forests with the biggest trees we've ever seen. (HALLELUAH the three explorers finally
did some exercise (it did however highlight how unfit we were)) We definitely fitted in with the hikers with our trainers and decent clothing haha. The bus journey there was just as enjoyable with stunning ocean views and winding roads through the forest.

Happiest when with food

 San Jose didn't have a lot going for it so we mainly spent our 4 days by the pool, walking round town or 'flicking each others boobs' inside our motel room. Like Inglewood in L.A it was a bit rough here so we were glad to move onto Monterey were its a bit safer. 

Tomorrow we move down the coast to Venice Beach for the final leg of what has been the best experience of our lives. 

Sorry this is only a short update, 

we look forward to seeing everyone soon.

lots of love

Megan, Robyn and Erin

xx

P.S our next post will be our last of the travelling series
however we'll pre warn you it's going to be a big one

San Fransisco, AAAHH HELP **Francisco

It's been a while since we've written a blog post,

we spent 2 weeks at Erin's Aunt Sheree's house

 where we sunbathed, relaxed and made it our own

personal mission to watch all 4 series of Prison Break.

81 episodes, 4 series, 3 girls, 1 programme.

My Aunt and Uncle picked us up from the station (big shout out to them for looking after us for 2 weeks)

and took us to Alcatraz- a prison island in the bay where criminals like Al Capone where sent. It was really eerie and was the main reason for our dedication to Prison Break. We learnt about the prison break attempts and in the 29 years of being open only 3 made it out through the pipes in their cell, however, whether they made it through a mile of shark infested water 

will forever be an unanswered question.

(The rumours were they were heading to South America).

We're now on the homestretch as we're heading to San Jose and 

Monterey for the next two weeks and then we finish our whole 

trip in LA. We've spent the last week in San Francisco

city and although it's no Melbourne it has definitely

become one of our favourite cities. Similar to Melbourne

it's quirky, full of life and filled with wonderful people.

Whilst in San Fran we met a lovely woman called Erika,

orignally from the city she decided to show us all the best places in San Francisco. She started by taking us to one of the longest

running festivals in the city the hippie Haight/Ashbury festival,

(que megan's input) 'it had garlic fries' (food forever on the brain).

A tourist's dream we visited Pier 39 and Fisherman's Wharf where we had a famous In-N-Out burger which we burned off climbing 1000 steps up to Coit Tower wgiving us a 360 degree view of the city. Erin was desperate to see the TransAmerica Pyramid which geographers will know, is built to withstand the effects of an earthquake (seeing San Andreas with my aunt made us paranoid to an earthquake along the fault). While in San Fran it was compulsory we visit the Golden Gate Bridge which although foggy and SO cold was breathtaking to look at. Americans know how to do it right. 

(However were clearly colourblind when they named the bridge) .

We also sampled a bit more American culture with a trip to watch the NBA finals (Golden State Warriors v Cleveland Cavaliers). Because the Warriors are from San Fran, the atmosphere was electric and the crowd where hilarious "put a dagger in him Curry!!!", everyone went mental when they won for the first time in 40 years (comiserations to Lebron James though).

The streets were alive all night, with buses honking and the drunken

chanting went on until the early hours of the morning.

 "Warriors, Warriors, Warriors"

Whilst in San Fran we thought it would be fun to
go to a over 18 club which was a good way to
experience the city natives. It was an experience to say the least,
in Megan's words "we turned ghetto for the night" being
part of the only few white girls in the club our dancing
skills could not live up to the twerking, pole dancing
and the moves that the San fran girls could pull off.

We thought we'd finished but Megan was upset we didn't

talk about Costco, so here is Megan talking about food. Being big food lovers we were amazed when we walked in to the shop as we were surrounded by extra large food, no joke the pizzas were the biggest things i've ever seen. After wondering round the shop taking pictures with all the food and trying all the free samples multiple times we got a famous costco hot dog and drink combo for only $1.50 which was truly delicous. Basically Costco is a wonderful place. The end.

lots of love

Megan, Robyn and Erin

xx