Hey guys.

Another interesting day and a proud day for Australia. Carl was in charge of the days frivolities and as such very little happened. To be fair the day revolved around five dollar subway, berocca, horse tranquillers and 8 hours of driving.

We awoke at 8:30 after 12 hours of sleep (cumulative), and keen to gorge ourselves on the complementary pancakes at the hostel. They were awesome. We were on the road by 9:30 and were sad to see the last of SLO (san luis obisbo). We drove north along the pacific coast highway for a couple of hours until we arrived at Herst castle, play ground to the media magnet someone herst and basis for the movie citzen kane. Unfortunately they force you to park five miles from the castle and pay for a 2 hour tour, being short on both money and time we elected not to participate.

Back on the road we stopped at one of the elephant seals breeding grounds. At this time of year the males are busy marking their ground and the females are yet to arrive. As such there was a little misbehaving but not too much. But these guys are big, the largest would have been pushing 3000 kilograms.

From there the road to monterray is spectacular. It hugs the coast cliffs, swerving in and out and up and down. We went from sea level to 2000 feet and back several times. As the driver for the whole day (Nick) I was loving the James Bond driving experience. Unfortunately 30 miles short of monteray it proved to much for carl’s stomach and we had to stop (it was probably the pancakes).

Monteray is described as a city of Ferraris and yachts but we were in a rush and settled for 5 dollar footlongs. For the next three hours carl and jez slept leaving nick to practice his karaoke and defensive driving, a lethal combination of sports.

We arrived in San fran 2 hours before we were to meet glenday and spent the time perusing san fransicsco state uni’s grounds. After settling in at the chumps we where taken on a night time tour of san fran. James very kindly took us to all his favourite night time date locations and usual make out locations, needless to say the view largely explains chumps success in the USA. Carl was left to drive as chump navigated us up and down the famously steep streets of san fran including lombard.

It was an awesome day but we were all exhausted.

‘Til Tomorrow,

Nick