Hello

Welcome to my travel diary for my trip around the USA in the summer of 2007. Here I'll be sharing my thoughts, observations, plans and photos. I've never been to the USA, so I don't really know what to expect from it. Well, it's bound to be familiar to everything we see on TV and in popular culture, but I'm sure there's more to it than that. I hope so anyway.

I'll be travelling first to Los Angeles, where I'll stay in Hollywood for a couple of nights. I'm then going to go on a 7 day Trek America backpacker bus tour to San Francisco, going via the Grand Canyon, Las Vegas and Yosemite National Park. After spending 5 days in San Francisco, I'll be travelling to Reno, where I'll be working in the Lake Tahoe area, doing conservation work for 7 weeks. In the first week of September, I fly to Washington D.C., then after a couple of days, go to New York. After a week there, I fly home.

I leave on Saturday, so this week I've been getting everything ready and making sure that I have all my kit. I'm re-using a lot of stuff that I bought for my trip around Australia and New Zealand, so I know what to take and what to leave behind.

Anyway, check back for more posts soon. I'll try and keep this as up to date as my internet access allows.