Usa Day 1

Thursday 14th
Note to all, America doesn't understand backpacking or travelling, when faced with the question of where will you be

staying in America, the response, I don't know, I'm on a two week road trip, so nowhere for more than a night does not

compute, in the end, after queuing up for 30 minutes I had to leave the line, go back to the information desk and ask for

a hostel in LA, the information desk...well, let's say it's not very aptly named, so as far as the US Government and

immigration are concerned I'm now staying in Banana Barracks in Los Angles, I very much doubt this is a real place, but

they didn't check so stuff 'em! after that farce of trying to get into the country, I met Alana and got the car, given a

choice, which was nice, we were told we could pick anything in the compact section, if there were none there we could

take something out of the intermediate section, the. The compact section seemed to be taken up mostly by people carriers

apart from a blue Toyota Yaris saloon, and a white Nissan Sentra, n ow, I don't like white cars, but the Yaris didn't

have a jack plug for an mp3 player, the sentra did :) (For information, a nissan sentra is essentially the same size as

my Primera back home, and this one claims to have to 140Bhp, coupled to a cvt automatic gearbox, it's gutless as hell, my

old Passat had 140, albeit with diesel torque and a turbo, but it destroyed this thing, as most cars would!) we then

navigated the traffic to Stefan and Emily's took, 1h20. sat in the garden an chilled for a bit, then Emily came home and

we went out to dinner at a philly cheese steak type lace, and caught the end of the Magc Celtics game 6 playoff game.

After dinner we headed to a little shopping type village, which was desgned in a whole '50s? kind of retro style which

was nice then had a walk through a little mall, which was rather big by our standards and had lots of col shops I've

never heard of, and a few I had. We then went back to Stefan and Emily's and fired up the pc attached to the tv to have a

look at our proposed route and get some suggestions on a really cool trip to San Francisco, then somehow we managed to

catch the season finale of series 3 of 30 rock! (How cool is that Rob!!!) and feel asleep.