Extreme Sight Seeing

The last few days since Las Vegas have been pretty full on. We have tried to see as many sights in the southwest as possible all the while dreaming of getting out on some surfboards. From Vegas we hit up the Hoover Dam. 

 From there we drove to the grand canyon which was a bit of a let down as we ended up driving for miles only to find out the place we went to charged FIFTY dollars just to go out and look at it... so we poached a glance down a side road that ended up on the local runway and kind of had to get out of there pretty quick! Never the less we saw the canyon but the pictures were not so good. The picture below was some of the stunning scenery that surrounds the canyon.

We travelled for a while on the infamous Route 66 and tried to imagine what it was like to travel on the first paved road that crossed America from Chicago to Los Angeles!

We visited the Hollywood walk of fame and ran into Mickey, as well as Andrews cousins (Terri and Mark) who just recently moved to LA and specifically HOLLYWOOD. How glamourous! We stayed the night with Terri and Mark to have a little taste of what it was like living the American Dream. However we were very quickly overwhelmed by the traffic and the people and felt like we needed to get on our way again!

We stopped by in Santa Monica to check out the famous pier and the end of Route 66.

We are currently in San Clemente, a town between LA and San Diego... although it seems the houses never stopped from leaving LA. We drove 170km to get here from Hollywood and seemingly never left the city. However now we are organizing our lives to start surfing, and that is keeping our minds occupied and allowing us to bear the crazyness of southern California!

Looking out to the San Clemente Beach

Watching the surfers and reminding ourselves how to do this sport.

Sun setting over the Pacific