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Category: World Trip 2009

A 52-day trip covering five countires; USA, Egypt, England, Belgium and Australia between 22 May 2009 and 12 July 2009

  • World Trip 2009: Day 11 – San Diego to Los Angeles, USA

    Monday 1 June 2009 Highlights: Citadel Shopping The very last long drive of the trip saw as go to Los Angeles. We stopped in a small missionary town on the way but I didn’t find it particularly interesting.

  • World Trip 2009: Day 10 – San Diego and San Ysidro, USA

    Sunday 31 May 2009 Highlights: San Diego Trolleys, San Diego Marathon After travelling by bus around San Francisco we moved to a trolley (tram) in San Diego. A great system that saw us go from one end of the blue line (Old Town) to the other end (San Ysidro – a border town with Mexico).…

  • World Trip 2009: Day 9 – San Diego, USA

    Saturday 30 May 2009 Highlights: Spectacular Sea World Today has a theme park day, something I was looking forward to. My mum wasn’t happy with the $12 car parking fee but I told her in advance this is how it is done. Sea World highlights: Shamu Show (whales performing people got very wet on a…

  • World Trip 2009: Day 8 – Las Vegas to San Diego, USA

    Friday 29 May 2009 Highlights: Las Vegas Outlet, Chula Vista Shopping Mall Another big driving day (about 5.5 hours), but first we had one more go at gambling and somehow we both won, my mum won about $20 and I finished up $1 (hey it’s a win). My mum then used her winning to buy…

  • World Trip 2009: Day 7 – Las Vegas / Hoover Dam, USA

    Thursday 28 May 2009 Highlights: Hoover Dam, Hitting and winning at various Casinos on the Strip Having cut the Grand Canyon visit out of the trip we still got to see the enormous engineering achievement that is the Hoover Dam. It’s hard to imagine how they built this; I guess they had problems since they…