Los Angeles

hi all

this will be my last post from the us. i am going to the airport tomorrow night and then will be on my way home. my flight number is QF94 from lax to melb.

i am staying in hostel on the beach. it reminds me alot of st kilda beach. the weather is nice and warm here, it must be somewhere between 20 and 25 degrees c. almost warm enough to take of my jumper but not quite. i quite like it here in la. most of the people are nice and it has a good atmosphere.

i was in san fransisco the other day for a couple of days. i DID NOT LIKE san fransisco. it was intimidating. the people at the hostel were nice but not just the regualr people. i went to visit fishermans warf but wasn't impressed. i was going to go on tour of alcatraz but there were none more until the next day - so i didn't get to tour alcatraz.

i returned the car to the rental place in la - i didnt have any problems. the papers that i was given by the travel agents said that i had to have the car there by 4pm. i was a little bit worried that i would not get there on time as the drive was supposed to be 5 + hrs (no traffic) and 7 + hrs (with traffic). i left at 9am but got lost trying to get out of the city. the freeways can be very confusing. anyway, because i thought i was going to be late i didnt stop for lunch. i made it by 3pm - yay. i got a taxi to the hostel ($25). i haved booked the bus to the airport tomorrow ($10).

anyway i am about to run out of time

see you all on friday

sarah

pistures taken on hwy 101 on the way to eureka. it was very scenic but alot slower than the freeway. the road went through every town along the way.

the bridge looked really pretty. it was made of concrete.

pictures from the underground in seattle. will explain when i get home

more pictures of the mansion in butte

1) picture of montana country side
2) shower at butte. this shower was original to the house. the bars on the side spray water horizontally and the shower head sprays water down. i tried to get it to work but the head at the top only sprayed cold water so i turned that off but then the jets on the side where too powerful. it hurt lots!! it might have been better if i had more time to play with it.
3)this is the room that i stayed in in butte

these are pictures of the garden of the gods in colorado that i visited it was really nice. the lady at the hostel recommended it. it was 1 hr south of denver.

eureka

i am currently in eureka. last night i was staying in eugene. when i got there after being lost for quite a while the guy on the desk said that i didn't have a reservation so instead of getting a private room i had to share which was ok i suppose except that i was looking forward to being by myself.

seattle was really good. i went to the top of the space needle in seattle. it was foggy when i got to the top but after half an hour the fog lifted and the view was fantastic. candice recommended an underground tour that is run in seattle so went on the tour. it was really good.

the original seattle was built on mud flats and the town kept getting flooded with every high tide. when they got toilets in the early 1900s the toilets would reverse flow at high tide. apparently there were '4 foot' geysers. when the city burnt down the told everyone that they had to build all the shops with a ground floor entry and a first floor entry. the city built stone walls on all the 'curbs' and filled in the street with dirt, raising the street level 3ish meters. so to cross the street ppl had to climb ladders to get onto the street and then climb down ladders to get on to the foot path. eventually they build foot paths the join the street with the first floor entries. for a while both the first and ground floors where being used unitl there was a rat plague in the underground part. the ground floor of some of the shops are stilll accessable. this is what the tour is of.


tomorrow i am going to san fransisco.

sarah