Clouds Over California

Heya!!

Well, i've finally made it! I've reached California and the Pacific Ocean after a loooooong bus jounrey from El Paso, which totalled just under 1000 miles. Lovely fun!! Hardly got a wink of sleep as it was so uncomfy, but i made it goddamn it! My health seemed to stand upto the onslaught too, though it then decided to totally crash when i pulled into San Diego - cue me currently being dosed up on pills from the pharmacy to keep me with a modocum of life in me!

There's very little to recap really, as yesterday purely was made up of sitting on a bus. Though I did cover two entire states (New Mexico and Arizona), so at least i had something to look at. Managed to watch a thunder storm in the Arizona desert in the night, which was amazingly beautiful to watch - you could see the forks hitting all around. Hell, it's a long way away from the days when i used to be TERRIFIED of those forks of light hitting the ground back when i was a kid! Was pretty cool last night though. Also, the landscape FINALLY changed into pure desert with cacti everywhere. Weirdly i didn't see ONE cactus in Texas... it's a lie that they're everywhere, a lie i tells ya!!

Had an... interesting... lady sit near me on the bus from LA to San Diego - she kept talking to me about the Royal family - now i'm no anti-Royalist, but i'm not entirely clued up on every in and out. She seemed to think that a) i was from London, and b) that i knew all of the Windsors - as she seemed to think that most Britons have met them!! She's living in cuckoo land. Also kept talking about Diana... she's hardly living in the present, as i'm sure that she passed away over a decade ago now. She kept referring to her in the present tense... cue me putting my headphones on and feigning to be asleep... God, i wish i HAD slept, i wouldn't be feeling like this now!!

So, how's San Diego?? Cloudy! The temperature's about 18oC i'd guess - so about UK temperatures, which is lovely considering that i'm not feeling too well and the fact that i've been putting up with 40+ for the past week in Texas, Tennessee and Louisiana! Just had a stroll down to the Bay and stared out over the Pacific, which was pretty cool.

Not really planning much tonight - there's a pub crawl, but i'm absolutely battered from lack of sleep, so think i'll be giving me a miss which is really lame. Best to keep my alertness for Hollywood though - hopefully i'll be back to all guns blazing by then!! Just gotta keep pumping those pills.

Just realised that this post has very little 'meat' to it, and no inuendo's - damn, you can tell i'm not buzzing today can't you?! Too tired to be clever. Off to the zoo tomorrow to stroll around and see what's touted to be one of the best zoos in the world, so that should be ace, then just a tiny 3 hour journey to Hollywood on Friday - god that seems like NO time at all after what i've been enduring recently. Thank God that that's the last of my loooong journey's for a little while now!

Anyway, i'm babbling - i'll write a REAL update from Hollywood when i'll be back on form ;-)

Aaron! x