roundtheworldin18days

  Dionne Warwick coined the song after she felt she had to go home after not achieving what she wanted to in L.A  We picked it up as have made San Jose more of our focus out here rather than San Fran itself. Interesting facts, San Jose (other than having a great airport, being a BA hub and having a seismic football team, still no other earthquakes) is 12th largest city in the U.S, and the hopping off point for Silicon Valley, so we had a day of quiet adjustment taking in some of the seats of learning and entrepreneurship that make this area quite established in recent years. No-one quite sure what time zone they were on so we really had to keep things simple before maybe one more day or so of ticking off a couple of final activities and then head home. Thoughts certainly turning to home and work today especially as we ended the day on a University campus. I woke before everyone in our little AirBnb, and got on top of all the charging situation. We are on a main road in Palo Al...

  Easy, relaxing days, even final ones, minutes to hours, the Fiji world just drifting by and we happy to float with it. Remember many days like this when backpacking, sitting and watching the world go by as we waited our next segment.  The Beachouse as good a place to do this as anywhere. The running total today meant our day had an extra 19 hours due to us crossing the international date line, almost two for the price of one you might say. So we had our last pile of toast, and then checked out, a very reasonable weekly total for the 4 of us considering we have eaten most our meals here and drunk the nights away, as well as taken a few trips.  Whilst not going into details I'd say accommodation/trips and food/ regular drink a tad cheaper than a cheap package holiday to the Med back home. (there were flights of course but they take you to many places!) I decided to remain in Fiji mode all day, trunks and trainers for a run along the beach one last time, and amongst the lo...