To America and Beyond

Wednesday 25th February
We took a short river boat cruise around the waters of Ft Lauderdale today. What can I say Money money money.

Apparently Someone with more money than sense bought a yacht that was to long for his property so he bought the house next door and knocked it down.

Friday 27th February
We were up shortly after daylight and I could not wait to get out of the hostel. It's by far the worst place I have ever stayed in all my life but still glad we stayed other wise we would not of gone to Key West. Although the road there is only a single carriage way with road works and traffic jams at all the different Keys it was deffintately worth doing. It was hard to keep your eyes on the road. When I went to load the bike I realised I had left the helmets locked to the bike during the night and it had rained so we both had to suffer soggy helmets.

Tuesday 3rd March
Relaxing in Deland at the moment it's a small town just 20 miles from Daytona we have been made very welcome yet again courtesy of Lauretta and Kit from couch surfing.com

Friday 6th March

Monday 9th of March
Completely lost track of time, we're still in Daytona and this is our last day here we went to a blues club yesterday eve and I got a little drunk. The band playing was called the bath salt zombies and were very entertaining. The drinks are very over priced for bike week, It's realy nuts here during bike week and it's also spring break and the hotels are full of a mix of bikers and kids on there spring break. We have seen and done so much the last few days I don't know where to start so I'm not. I'm just going to post a few pics.

Tuesday 10th March
Arrived in Cocoa Beach and we have not been able to get a reply from the person from the ADV rider forum who invited us here for the rocket launch, after a coffee and a session on Starbucks free wifi there was still no reply. We did find out however that it would be better viewing from a town called Titusville and also a lot cheaper. Motels in Cocoa beach were $140 a night and $50 at Titusville. It's a little more remote than cocoa beach but it's clean and comfy and a little bit of peace and quiet after Daytona won't go a miss.

Monday 16th March
Just when you think you have seen it all. On interstate 10 just outside New Orleans there was a broken down car on the hard shoulder it had been jacked up on bricks with all its wheels missing and if we had stayed in the first motel we found I'm sure my bike would of gone missing.

We are in Sonora waiting for the flooding to drain away. Apparently over night there has been heavy rain causing flooding on a lot of the roads and the forcast is for more today heavier than yesterday. I think we managed to miss the worst of it yesterday on our way here. Last night we tried a Mexican restaurant that looked to be pretty good as it was very busy, however the food has put me off Mexican food for good apart from being disgusting I had a severe bout of food poisoning last night. Feel ok now but not going to eat anything for a while.

Sunday 22 March

Arizona
Tuesday 24th
Where to start? What a fantastic day. We set off quite early for Acoma Pueblo (Sky City)

Saturday 28th March
Rode over London Bridge, it looked ever so small I think it must of shrunk in the heat. Or perhaps they lost a few bits in the post. Took a few pics and then took a ride around the island that the bridge connects.

Wednesday April 1st

San Francisco
Friday 3rd April

We can't quite work out the best way to get motels some of the deals you can get online seem to be unbeatable compared to just walking in and asking the rates, but that requires Internet and that's not always available, we have also found out that if you just turn around and say sorry it's beyond our budget they often drop a few dollars but not always, we have tried looking up the rates then walking in but they have gone up and they won't reduce them so we went elsewhere.

Saturday 4th April
It's a lovely sunny day again with a cool breeze as we head off. The streets outside the motel were heavily marked with tyre marks or should I say tire, the crossroads had doughnut skid marks and there was also a fare bit of broken glass. It looks like the locals had quite a good night.

San Simeon
We decided to take a break from riding for a few days and have checked in to a Motel in San Simeon. We were near here on our way up to San Francisco, there was a tour of Hearst castle that Marcia really wanted to do but like Alcatraz was fully booked so we booked it up and came back to do the night tour.

Wednesday 8th April
We a good ride South on highway 1 to Los Angeles through Malibu beach.
We had booked 2 nights in a small town called Downey through AirBnB.com

Monday 13th April

Tuesday 14th April
Viva Las Vegas, one night is more than enough. It's like everything in USA it's huge. In the year 2000 the population was 478,000 it's now over 2,000,000 it's a seething mess and growing. It was worth going for the cheap hotel and to see it, so been there done that now let's get the f&@k out of here.

Wednesday 15th April
After another day of strong winds and we were more than happy to have arrived at San Francisco. After checking in to the motel I fell asleep we were both absolutely knackered. Around about 6 we decided to go for a short walk and get some grub, it ended up being a long walk, on the whole a very friendly city although we did bump into an interesting character who was off his head on something brandishing a knife and shouting at us, we just ignored him and walked on bye.