Los Angeles & San Diego, California

We weren't in any rush to get to LA on Saturday, so left Vegas around mid-day and headed West towards LA...where we've both been before, and of which neither of us are fans!! But this time we weren't actually going to downtown LA itself, just Carson, which is south of downtown and where the LA Galaxy play!! Their game against the 'Seattle Sounders' didn't kick off until 8pm so we got there in plenty of time - about 5ish I think!! So we just had a good kick about in the car park for an hour or so before going in!! The game itself was the usual poor standard I've come to expect from the MLS...it was good to see Beckham (23) though...

...However the 'seeing him' didn't last too long, as he got sent off after SEVENTEEN minutes!! Haha, shouldnt have been a red, but the ref sent a couple more players off too later in the game & Seattle ended up winning 2-0. We had a good laugh though and some of the banter was pretty funny, some Seattle guy was near us with a sign saying 'We drove 1100 miles to boooo Beckham', so some LA Galaxy fan went off and made his own sign saying 'Seattle fucking blows'....Imaginative hey!! Anyway we got out of the game and headed south towards San Diego to find a hotel for 2 nights...which ended up being a bit of a nightmare with it being a Saturday but after we'd been driving around for a good hour or so trying to find one, we found one in Oceanside, about 30 minutes North of San Diego itself. We spent Sunday at the San Diego Zoo which was pretty awesome...I don't really know what else to say about it to be honest, there were lots of animals...

After leaving the Zoo we headed into the centre for a look around & ate at the local Hard Rock Cafe!! Then we had a nice early start today (Monday!!) for our drive up the California coastline...just the 450 miles or so North to San Francisco!! Its not been too bad though - we drove through a few cool places like Laguna Beach, Newport Beach & Malibu, plus we've ended up getting here and checked into our hotel for just after 5pm, so cant complain!! We're in San Fran for 2 nights now, before we head East for the first time this trip on Wednesday!! When we'll be off to Yosemite National Park...