I love San Fransisco! It’s the most amazing city I’ve ever been to, and I’ve loved my last 2 days here, and will be very sad to leave here tomorrow.

So while the rest of my group have gone to bed as we have an early start tomorrow (7.15 get up) I, the hardcore dedicated blogger, have stayed up on the worlds SLOWEST computer in the hotel lobby to rave about how much I love San Fran.

The whole trek is going really well, it’s day 4 now and I’m loving it! My worries did come true- there’s just 5 of us on the trek, 4 girls and 1 boy. And while my trek does join with another, there’s only one person doing that trek- the boy who is in with us. BUT we’re getting on great and being a smaller group really has its advantages, we’ve got loads of room in the van and get to have 3 sleeping mats each every night we’re camping (which is most nights so it makes a massive difference). But some times its a bit awkward- for example when we all want to do different things in big cities but dont want to go off on our own.

So far I’ve been to Los Angeles (I got there feeling very sick and disorientated after 22 hours of travelling including a 3 hour delayed flight, grrr) where I met some other travellers like me the night before we set off for the trek. Then on the first day of Trek we went to Universal studios and Hollywood, which was loads of fun.Day 2 we went to Monterey, which was on the Californian coast and had a really cool aquarium, and day 3 + 4 it’s been San Fransisco.

So we got here yesterday, had a tour of the city from our fabulous Trek leader Lauren (no, she didn’t pay me to say that), then went to a park for lunch and then walked across Golden Gate Bridge (which took over an hour because we took so many photos) and then in the evening went on a sunset sailboat cruise which was loads of fun, not least because we got free drinks. Followed by a trip to China town and the cheapest, nicest chinese food ever. And today we’ve been exploring the city, so have been to lots of shops, a gay neighbourhood, china town again and the worlds most crooked street. I’ve fallen in love with union square, which is like a park surrounded by shops- not entirely unlike millenium square in Leeds. Then this evening we went to a Baseball game- San Fransisco Giants v. LA Dodgers (i sit here typing wearing a Giants jumper), the atmosphere was amazing, not like an English football match as they sit all the fans in together. Unfortunately the dodgers won, but it was fun all the same.

Tomorrow we head to Yosemite on a 5 hour drive (i’m looking forward to catching up on some sleep in the van!) which will be really cool in a completely different way to the city. Lots of hiking and hopefully far less money spending.

Everything has been really cheap over here so far, and everyone really friendly. On the bus on the way home from the game tonight a load of strangers started talking to each other about the best place to go out in town- not something that would happen in England! And this morning in a coffee shop I had a right old chat with a personal trainer called Ray, who recommended I visit the gay neighbourhood (so I did). However, the weather has NOT been waht i expected- San Fransisco is downright cold for most of the time, and it was too cold to swim in the sea at Monterey. I’m keeping my fingers crossed for an improvement at Yosemite.

Anyway, I’m SHATTERED, and this was supposed to be a quick post, but what can I say? Blogging’s addictive. I’ll try keep you posted. xxx