Blog followers, read this to piece together the route of our travel because the posts to date have not been in a logical order!

(This is Sue here!) We are now home (and have been for 2 weeks) but because we did not travel with any technology, we haven't been very regular with our blog posts. Because of this, so far our Blog reads that we went to LA, Florida, San Francisco, Yosemite, down to Legoland (by San Diego) and then back to Florida!!!

We had 3 weeks in Florida in total, alot of that time we were based with family in Naples, but also a 5 night stay in Orlando (visiting the theme parks plus a day at the Kennedy Space Centre on the Atlantic coast). Our trip to 'The Keys' was a 2 night trip in Florida, then we had one more night with Paul, Sue and family in Naples, before flying to San Francisco.

This is where we started our 14 day Californian trip. 3 nights in San Francisco, before heading inland to the Sierra Nevada mountain range and the AMAZING Yosemite National Park, where we stayed for 3 nights. Then headed back towards the coast, south of San Francisco to Monterey. From there we headed South, mainly following the coast, all the way through LA (drove through Malibu, Santa Monica, Newport Beach, Huntington Beach)  towards San Diego. Not enough time to visit San Diego, but Matthew had a big request to visit Legoland. (located just north of San Diego) From Legoland, we headed inland towards the desert - a fantastic stop at Anza Borrego Desert, before making our way to Palm Springs for a few nights. From there we headed back to LA where Jim tackled the freeways like a pro - a drive through Beverly Hills, a very quick few hours of shopping, plus our last dinner at the same place that we had our first - 'Chipotle' in Santa Monica, then it was all over!!!!! Returned the rental car, packed away our GPS lifeline, 'Doris' and then wait for our very late flight out of LA. Our bags are much fuller, our bank account much emptier, and our lives much richer - what an amazing time we have had! As we wait at the airport, we feel that we should actually be catching the next flight back to Florida! WE WISH! Life isn't too rough though....back to Queenstown and a winter of Skiing.......

Check out the individual blog posts still to come that will fill in the gaps about our Californian adventure.