Death? Valley yeah right

So our last night in Vegas wasn't all that eventful, we'd decided to have a nap after Joe cooked us a meal, I know what your thinking, we didn't think he could cook either, it was surprisingly good. so the plan was to go out at 12 after our nap. 12:30 arrives, still in bed, me and oskar get up no sign of the other too, so we knock on their door still no answer, finally after ringing them they get up and eventually we're off. We did the usual, lost money, won money, got scammed by a taxi driver, you know how it is. We got some decent pictures of all the decent places and at 5:00am that was the end of our night, so we headed back and got an hours kip before setting off to Death Valley.

Tuesday morning, we sadly left our gorgeous hotel on the strip and headed to Death Valley, first stop was Wal Mart to invest in a fan for the van and some water. On the way, surprise surprise we get ambushed by three cops on motorbikes. So the usual situation paned out, 'since when have Georgia hand written their temporary license plates', oh funny guy. Then the usual rigmarole of giving them our details and the usual lectures and we were on our way, one of the cops however came out with, 'oh man I've got to get a picture of this its hilarious', dickhead.

So we're on our way to Death Valley anticipating a hot day. It didn't disappoint, although it wasn't as bad as we thought, we could breathe when we got out of the car. We visited a couple of the sites on our way through, tried to stop at a campsite and camp there, we thought the better of when we got ambushed by thousands of flies so we headed off to LA, but not as far as we would've hoped.

So Death Valley as you know is hot, well turns out so is our car, it over heated and wouldn't run, this was in the middle of nowhere, bugger. So Joe was shitting it a bit at this point, I however was as calm as cucumber, confident our baby would not lets us down, I was right, 10 minutes later we were on our way again, with a couple of stops to let the van cool down.

We spent the night in a little town called Lone Pine it was a nice town, we went out for something to eat then hit one of the bars and played pool. Oskar made a friend with a guy who's dad was from Sweden, he bought us all a drink and for some reason invited us to stay with him in Seattle, a bit weird.

LA. We'd decided to check out Hollywood and then Beverly Hills. The walk of fame was a little disappointing, well Hollywood in general, if the stars weren't there what else is there? After a couple of pictures we went to Beverly Hills, didn't see much sadly, all the houses were set far back behind lots of trees, we saw a few though. Next stop, Hwy 1 and venice beach.

God the Pacific's cold so we didn't stay long, we played some frisbee then back on the road. The night was spent a hour up the round in a tiny motel with one double bed and a single, cosy, I was on the air bed.

Next, San Francisco.