Mendoza

April 24th - 27th - Mendoza, Argentina

Our time in Mendoza was pretty much spent talking about how great it would be in summer because it was about 10 degrees and raining but we made the most of it. Mendoza was so nice and since its the winery region we did a bike riding winery tour. We were the only ones on it because it was cold and wet so everyone else cancelled. 

Buenos Aires, Argentina

April 18th - 30th - Buenos Aires, Argentina

Buenos Aires, our first stop in South America. We luckily got 2-3 nice warm days at the start but then it became horribly cold which unfortunately made it hard to walk around the streets but we did as much as we could.

1. Best BBQ meat place we found, $2.5 for a really yummy chorizo in a roll with salsa

2. The buildings and architecture were really beautiful and then some had this amazing graffiti that made it even more interesting.

3. La Recoleta Cemetery where Eva Peron is buried. The mausoleums are huge

4. Simo, Zinga, Josh, Daniel and me had Tango lessons, we passed.

5. El Rosedal (Rose Garden) in Parque Tres De Febrero

6. The Obelisk 

7. Boca Juniors v Colon Stream - still not a soccer fan but the atmosphere was impressive. Boca 1-Colon 0

8. The only good steak we had and god it was good. 400g of rump with salads and so many condiments for only $20

El Salvador

April 18th, 2012 

Our flight from Los Angeles to El salvador was delayed which meant we missed our connecting flights to Peru and then on to Argentina. This did seem pretty annoying until TACA airlines told us they would provide us accomodation and meals for the 24 hours we were stuck in El Salvador. They put us up in the Crowne Plaza in San Salvador with buffet meals, yay! Whilst we were there there was a big Army conference there with the highest ranked soldiers and officals from El Salvador, USA and Canada, so security was intense as was the amount of guns hanging off all of them. Beautiful place though....

April 13th - 16th Coachella, Palm Springs


Coachella was pretty awesome, some flaws but otherwise awesome. We hired a campervan for the week, it had a massive bed, a fridge, store, sink and still room for us to drive it. Unfortunately it was so big it was bloody hard to drive especially on the other side of the road too. Coachella was massive like 60000 people per day and luckily it wasnt as hot this first weekend as it was the 2nd weekend but it was still hot, its in the desert! And the views around the site were just unreal. 
We stayed next to some awesome Finnish people and again ate lots of mexican food and super cheap vodka ( 1.75L Absolut for $23!). The best act was Kaiser Chiefs but also Snoop & Dre, Arctic Monkeys, Kasabian, The rapture, Frank Ocean and The Black Lips.

April 11th - Dodgers first home game for the season

Today we went to the Dodgers first home game for the season and also the stadiums 50th anniversary. It was pretty amazing and in typical american fashion the pre-game stuff was over the top. The Beach Boys performed some of their songs and the national anthem. If you look closely at the bottom picture it pretty much shows what happened, they presented everyone from each team included nutritionists, physios and assistant secretaries. Then they pulled open this enormous flag with US soldiers, sang the national anthem then released 52 doves (representing each state), set off fireworks and then 2 fighter jets flew over top. Im not sure how many doves survived. Dodgers beat Pittsburg 2-1

April 9th, 2012 - Los Angeles

Departing Melbourne to New Zealand and then onto Los Angeles, U.S.A. We flew with Air new zealand and it was so good we didnt want to get off. New Zealand airport was fine except the huge amount of sheep and possum fur things you could purchase e.g. possum nipple and willy wamers. Anyway the plan is to stay in Los Angeles until April 12th and then head to Palm Springs, California for Coachella Music festival and then return to Los Angeles to fly to Argentina on April 17th. Hopefully we have good internet I will try to upload more posts

This was between Venice Beach and Santa Monica Beach. We walked from one beach to the other. This is a massive outdoor gymnastics area which anyone could play on it was free and we ended up watching people for about half an hour there. In this area ive never seen so many people doing outdoor activities if you werent riding a wierd 2metre bike or a normal bike or rollarblading, you were doing yoga or capoiera. Somehow we missed muscle beach (the outdoor gym) we´ll have to see it next time.

The healthiest food we found in LA and once we found it went there 4 nights in a row. It was a mexican sports bar and it was so cheap. I think these were $8 each and another night we shared a main cause it was so big and it was only $11. The food in the US is just double the size of ours. You cant get anything normal sized and its the same price or cheaper then ours. The smallest beer was a scooner and it was only $4.

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