The Plan – Part 2
I am sure you’re all wondering in great anticipation about some more details on our plan. So here is a slightly more detailed description:
We leave wintery Perth on 10th July and then head to Sydney for 3 days. We will be staying with some friends there (*thumbs up* to Carita and Nicki) who have a particularly awesome apartment in North Sydney which overlooks the harbour bridge…seriously. Carita is taking a day off to go exploring with us – really looking forward to catching up with her.
From Sydney, we go on a wonderful 13 hour flight to San Francisco thanks to Qantas Airlines. We chose not to go to L.A. because apparently the airport there is crap. Also, I watch The Hills so I have seen enough of L.A. anyway 🙂
So we will be spending 10 days in San Fran and have already booked at the Adelaide Hostel (which seems to have some good reviews). We plan to do Alcatraz, Golden Gate bridge, Fisherman’s Wharf, Chinatown etc. Should be a blast.
From there, we will be heading across to the gambling capital of the world – Las Vegas. We will probably stay there for about 5 days or so. We haven’t booked anywhere yet but with the dwindling US dollar the hotels are pretty cheap. We are thinking the Luxor or Bill’s Gamblin’ Saloon. Ofcourse, we will also try to take a wander up to the Grand Canyon too.
After that, our plans get a little… vague. Rob’s uncle is down in Kerrville (just outside San Antonio) in Texas. So will probably fly there and stay 2-3 weeks exploring Texas.
We definitely want to go to New Orleans, Florida (Disney World yay!), Chicago and New York. Rob also has some family in Chicago so will be good to spend some time with them. They have already promised to take us to a Cubs game (that’s a baseball team by the way).
We are hoping to hire/scab a car somehow – we reckon that would be the best way to get around from San Antonio onwards. Have to see what happens.
After exploring the east coast, we will be making our way back in San Fran so that we can catch our flight to Tokyo on 8th October.
Rob has a mate who used to live in Japan and who will be there in October. We will be getting a Japan Rail Pass which has been highly recommended to help us get around a little easier. We plan to spend a day or two in Tokyo to get over some jet lag – then catch the train to Osaka and stay there for ~10 days (doing day trips to various nearby cities and towns). Then we go back up to Tokyo for ~10 days and do much the same thing. Really looking forward to Japan – although I am also a bit hesitant as I hate… crowds :S
And we arrive back in Perth on 30th October.
So there you have it – the plan!
Sayoonara,
Leeane