Arrived in McMinnville

Hello!
We're safe in the home of Just's friends' just south of Portland... return the VW tomorrow with only one parking ticket damage thus far... (fingers crossed!)
We're here for a week so will be online & skype!
x A&J

Redwoods

We're now in a town called Crescent City, just south of the border of Oregon. The past few days have been incredible. So much learning and seeing and doing.

I forgot to say in the last post that we had spent the previous morning (last Sunday) looking around San Fransisco we happened upon a traffic jam like no other, the closer we got to the city, the worse it got, and the more costume-clad university types we started seeing... see photo... we decided to take a risk and drive down a blockaded road only to find ourselves in the middle of the biggest post-street party clean up we had seen a while, ambulances, street cleaners and garbage trucks... and more of the cosumers - totally loaded, and it was 11am on a Sunday... we figured it was a end of year uni party and got the heck out of there, luckily the main downtown area was clear... later we found out it was actually a marathon day that has been running every year and has just exploded with crazyiness... wild.









From there we found ourselves climbing a mountain and chatting up a park ranger for discounted camping, which she helped us out with and we have offered a free ticket to Just's seattle show for her boy.

We camped that night in this amazing ravine, with private beach and amazing sunset.

Yesterday we were hunting for this hippy community Just had found when he was here years ago, turns out it's been sold and so instead we drove into the middle of the redwood forest and met a nice Texan who we decided to share a site with... an early start this morning and we've already got 3 hours of driving under our belt and it's 11:30am. Crossing the border today and hoping to pithc our tent on the beach again...
LOTS OF LOVE!!
A&J
ps. the first couple pictures are from our first 2 nights on the route 1, (which we've been driving on this whole time, night 1 on a beach in santa barbara and night 2 in big sur)

Going North

Ah. The landscape around here is amazing.
Just and I spent last night camping at the edge of the ocean on this massive rocky bluff with no one else around, except whoever stole one of our bagels from our food store in the middle of the night!

We're rushing our way up the coast so more pictures tomorrow I'm afraid. If you want to find us on a map we stayed just south of Stintons Beach last night and are at Point Area now, sleeping in the redwood forest tonight.

Just to let you know we're here and well!
xo A&J

Driving Driving Driving

Hello friends!

Just and I are making our way up the coast, we spent the night last night next to the beach just south of Santa Barbara and are almost at Big Sur where we'll be camping again tonight. We're loving our tent and are happy to have some nice in-between quiet time together.

It's been incredible being back in North America, so many big cars and big RVs towing SUVs... amazing.

No pictures for the moment, just doing a few emails in a little coffee shop and off again.

Lots of love!!!
xx A&J

Joshua Trees

We left the big city yesterday in the morning and made our way East, out to the Joshua tree desert (via Target of course to pick up a snazzy tent & air mattress).

It was an amazing time to have a bit of peace and quiet and reflect on our move across the sea and look forward to what's coming.... we camped out beside a massive rock formation and climbed to the top for dinner. We are now making our way back to LA for the night and will be heading north on the route 1 tomorrow. Some pictures and a video! x A&J

Melbourne to LA

Well, it's been a long time since I've written anything on this blog but I'm on the road again, and so here we go.

We left Melbourne after almost a year of adventures and new friends. So many beautiful people. A group of our nearest and dearest took us to the airport to send us off, it was a big step, especially for Just who'd been living there for almost three years.

But we were welcomed in LA by open arms and an air mattress to crash on in the afternoon when the jet lag hit. The first two night we stayed with a friend called Sarah in her swish downtown loft and explored the city... some pictures.