I hadn’t had a holiday in over a year and I was really starting to feel it, I know, first world problems right? I won’t go into detail but it had been a really hard year for me so I was screaming out for a break. As I side note I feel I have to mention after the shell shock I experienced going from of 9 weeks holiday in France (yes that’s right, I said 9 weeks…….a year…….not a decade) down to 4 weeks working in London I really noticed the difference. I had to use most of my holiday allowance on travelling back to Paris for family and blog related things so I really wanted to use the remaining days to do something spectacular. So I started checking all across the world and what did I find……Zika, Terrorism, Typhoons, Rain, Storms……basically every place on the planet that had any sort of sun also had some worrying reason why we shouldn’t go there. So after an extensive worldwide search my boyfriend and I discussed the idea of a road trip across California that we had both long wanted to do but had always deemed too expensive. However he had some work commitments coming up over there and also loads of people he had put off meeting for years about his work so we decided now was the time and to do it on as small a budget as possible. We then started looking at the West coast and trying to focus in on where we should go and how this road trip would work logistically. It seemed there were two main possibilities, one of which focussed on the areas out from LA to Las Vegas with Death Valley and the Grand Canyon en route and the other was to start in Northern california and work our way down to LA trying to take in Yosemite and the Sequoia trees if possible. So we checked a million hotels, a thousand maps, hundreds of car rental options and every flight over the next weeks and finally, after a huge amount of wrangling, booked our tickets to San Francisco! View Post