Potland - Sacramento - Los Angeles - Flagstaff (AZ)

Hello.

Portland is a cool place. We were staying in a grungy area featuring loads of small shops and local businesses. Key to our enjoyment of the area was a nearby cinema where you can watch a movie while enjoying pizza and beer for less than $10 (5UKP at the moment!). The Portland hostel also has a cat called Bailey. He sits in front of the AC vent all day. He's cool.



Anyway, we got the bus from Portland to Sacramento where we stayed in the local HI hostel which is in an old mansion building (maybe link later, but Google it in the meantime). Sac was quite cool, but we weren't in the best area - we were occasionally hassled by panhandlers and we startled a whole nest of rats (eek) as we walked back through a nearby park. Old Sacramento is an historic few blocks of wild-westy looking buildings - although only a couple of them date from the 1800s.

We caught the bus to Los Angeles and then onto Phoenix - which unfortunately broke down and turned a 20-ish hour journey into a 30 hour one. We were due to arrive in LA at 23:30-ish and then get a bus out at 1:00am - unfortunately by the time we limped in to LA, it was already 2:30 and the next bus to Phoenix (with a connection to Flagstaff) was at 7:00am.

We got into Flagstaff exhausted but dragged ourselves to a supermarket for dinner supplies before we crashed out.