San Francisco - day 3

Giant Japanese Pagoda in Peace Square, Japantown


Inside the Japantown mall


Origami stone sculpture thing with UPM


More monkeys for the army


Entry to Chinatown


Giant can of uber artificial drink type substance


Looking up Chinatown & a cable car


UPM makes friends with a dragon


Crazy old guy from the tea shop with UPM


UPM & the Free Tea tasting, they had over 300 different types of tea


UPM behind the bar at the tea shop


Duane & UPM outside Mo's Burgers, they have epiclly good burgers, better than burger fuel


The view of the city from coit tower


UPM in Coit Tower looking towards the Golden Gate Bridge


The Coit Tower ontop of Telegraph Hill


UPM using binoculars


UPM & the Twinkies


Duane & the Twinkie


Entrance to the Baseball stadium


UPM watching baseball


UPM & the epic stadium


Swing batter batter, swing


Lou Seal the Giants Mascot

San Francisco - day 2 part2

looking down one of the hill towards the bay


Fire Truck!!!


Alcatraz, we are doing the night tour on Friday


Musical Monkeys


Gods favorite game - Skeeball


A Real American Submarine


Me attempting to play a baseball game, we found a museum full of old school arcade games, it was epic.


Duane & the Fishermans Wharf sign


Looking down Pier 39, there is lots of random cool shops here.


Such as this one.


More Monkeys for my Army


UberPickleMonkey goes to Hooters


Us & the Hooters girl


Rotating the cable car


UPM waiting in line for the cable cars


Duane, Ivana & UPM on the cable car


UPM being a monkey & hanging off the side


NOB, :)

San Francisco - day 2

Sugar in a milk container

The Dogs Bollix in San Francisco

UPM on top of the cable

UPM 'attacking' the golden gate bridge

The Golden Gate Bridge

Some Pirates for Ash

The chocolate factory

The worlds steepest street with UPM

Chilli Dog with uber processed cheese

The Palace of Fine Arts

Auckland & San Francisco - Day 1

San Francisco is amazingly epic, its very surreal not being in NZ. The flight over was long & cramped. The public transport system kicks ass all of everything i've come across before.

Here are the best pics from the past couple days.



Yay, Jo's Cookies

Our Friends at the airport

UberPickleMonkey finds a friend,

The view of the Pacific Ocean

The plane that removed us from NZ

The view out of Ivana's window

Updated Itinerary

Due to the swine flu, our Contiki through Mexico was canceled. So here is the updated itinerary.

10 May fly from Auckland to San Francisco
flight nz 8, 7:30pm

Staying at Duane's friends place

16 May fly from San Francisco to Las Vegas
flight us 110, 12:00pm

Staying at the Imperial Palace

19 May fly from Las Vegas to Orlando
flight us 888, 4:01pm

Staying at the Continental Plaza

23 May Greyhound Bus from Orlando to Miami

Staying at ???

27 May fly from Miami to New York
flight co 239, 6:45am

Staying at the Tone on Lex

30 May train/bus to from New York to Boston

Staying at some hostel

1 June fly from Boston to Seattle

Staying at ???

3 June bus/train to Seattle to Vancouver

Staying at ???
and finding a job