So we have finally arrived in Lima, Peru! Yesterday was a long old day of travel, a 7 hour flight from Los Angeles to Bogota, then a little wait in the Colombian airport for our connecting 3 hour flight on to Lima. We finally made it to our new Airbnb in the Barranco area at 3am local time, so we pretty much crawled into our beds and dropped off to the land of nod! Continue reading
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On to the next chapter!
Well I won’t lie, today has been a bit of a roller coaster of emotions! We woke up in gorgeous San Diego and packed up from our lovely Airbnb home to head to our airport hotel in LA ready for our flight to Peru tomorrow! Not sure any of us wanted to leave!!!! Continue reading
Joshua’s Tree National Park
Yesterday we took the 2 1/2 hour drive inland from Los Angeles to our new Airbnb in Desert Hot Springs. We were told to pick up the keys from the apartments partner hotel, the Aqua Soleil Hotel and mineral spa, which was a short 2 min drive from the apartment. We are allowed to use the hotel facilities so decided to quickly drop our bags at our new home and come back for the afternoon. Continue reading
The day we fell in love with LA!
Today whilst America was busy voting in their new president we decided to hire bicycles and cycle our way along the coast.
We hired two adult bikes one with a pull along bike for Daisy and a children’s bike for Molly from hermosa cycles shop. We’d packed some homemade lunch and set off in the warm Californian sun. Continue reading
Driving down Big Sur and watching elephant seals!
Yesterday we checked out of our Monterey motel and after picking up some lunch supplies at the local store, we began the winding coastal drive down the scenic Highway One on our way to Los Angeles. Continue reading
Monterey Bay Whale watching!
We weren’t planning on whale watching and I must admit after many failed dolphin hunting trips in Spain I was a little hesitant at splashing out on this one!
But boy am I glad we did! Monterey Bay coastwatch have a great system which tracks what mammals have been spotted each day in the bay. So we knew from looking at Continue reading
Monterey Bay Aquarium
After a 3 hour drive from mariposa this morning we arrived in sunny Monterey in time for another cheeky lunch at Jonny rockets!
We came to Monterey with a purpose and headed straight to the highly recommended aquarium! Such a fantastic place, amazing viewing areas, lots of areas to get touchy Continue reading
The wonder of Yosemite national park!
Since arriving in America, Yosemite park has been the place that everyone we meet has said ‘you’re gonna love it’ ‘it’s the best!’so it really was up on it pedestal!
We arrived in Mariposa (a town close to the park) yesterday afternoon, and found our latest Airbnb rental! A little bear retreat (everything possible in the house has a bear Continue reading
One from the girls! Happy Halloween!
We got back in time to go trick or treating with Nancy, David, Jocelyn, the twins and Rio the dog (dressed as a lion! )
Happy Halloween!
Love Molly and Daisy xxxxx🎃🎃🎃🎃 Continue reading
Beautiful Lake Tahoe
Today we decided to take the highway up into the mountains and over to Lake Tahoe.
Well what a beautifully scenic day! Every twist of the road along the way revealed a stunning new view, from snow capped mountains to misty tree lined cliff faces, beautiful cool rivers slowly meandering through the valleys to jaw dropping waterfalls! And then Lake Tahoe suddenly came into view! Continue reading
a little time out 