We made it!

Don't have time for a long post right now, but just wanted to let you know we made it!

Our first day and night were a lot of fun! So fun in fact, that we slept until 5pm local time!

Last night we kicked off the celebration of the 9th of October (a local tradition) with a midnight fireworks competition between an Italian and a Valencian. Then we went out and partied until 5am.

During the day Phil and I wondered around the city while Charles and Alli had to film something for her class.

Here are some pictures. I'll add captions later and explain more about our first day in the next post!




It's 5:45pm and I've got to get out of bed:)

Travel Gear

Phil and I needed new travel gear so I turned to ebags.com.
There are ups and downs to shopping online. I like it because there's a wide variety of products and most of the time there are reviews from people who've previously bought the item. On the down side, you never know what things will look like in person.

The suitcases I purchased are a little bit bigger than I thought they'd be, but overall I'm happy with them.

Mine:

Diane Von Furstenberg-29" Expandable Rolling Suitcase $103.99

Phils:

American Tourister-iLite 29" Rolling Expandable Upright $71.99


I'm a little unhappy with the backpack I got. It looks silly on me. Don't get me wrong its a great back pack, it's just HUGE. I have no doubt that I can fill it, though ;) I got it because it has tons of little pockets for easy storage, enough room for my laptop and a change of clothes and a detachable day pack. It would be a great backpack for someone who is backpacking through Europe. It's also very comfortable.


High Sierra Transport Travel backpack $87.99

I think Phil's is a much more reasonable size

I don't know the brand name for this one because he bought it at REI.

I also got this cross body day bag to carry around. I don't want to have to worry about things getting stolen out of my backpack while I'm walking around, so I think this is the perfect bag.

eBags Piazza Day Bag $36.79

Why am I including all this information?
Well, because when I travel I like to do research before hand. I was never able to find a website that told me everything about traveling that I wanted to know. I want to create a travel website for people like me. I am by no means an expert on traveling, but hopefully we can learn together and become better, more informed, travelers!
**Will edit this section later when I figure out what "people like me" means.**

Now I'm almost done with the last load of laundry. Phil is at the studio filming some stuff for a sketch show and will be home much later tonight. Got lots of packing to do!!

Thanks for reading and I promise to keep up!
Leave a comment and let me know about your favorite international vacation.

Going to Valencia!

City of the Arts and Sciences in Valencia, Spain
We're going to Valencia, Spain tomorrow!

Why Valencia? Why not Barcelona or Madrid?
Our friend Charles and his fiance Alli are there. Alli is there studying abroad and Charles is visiting her for a month. What better excuse to take a vacation, right? :)

No hablo español
Phil has never been out of the country-well except to Canada, but that doesn't really count. I've been to England, Ireland and Wales but never to a place where the main language isn't English.

**Side note- I am terrible with foreign languages. In high school I took French 1 three times before finally passing it with a C.

I bought a Spanish phrase book so I can at least "point" to what I'm trying to say. Even though each word is written out phonetically, I'd probably still make a fool out of myself if I tried to say anything in Spanish. Except hola and gracias. I am very confident saying those words ;)

Luckily Alli is majoring in foreign language and is basically fluent in Spanish.

Ze plan
Our flight from LAX to JFK leaves at the ungodly hour of 6:00 am. Then from JFK we have an 8 hour flight that arrives in Valencia at 7:30am. If we can make ourselves sleep on that flight we should be good to go for our first day in Spain!

Playing catch up...

Well the whole "road trip blog" didn't work out so well, did it? Let me get you up to speed.

When we got to LA we didn't want to leave. All of our YouTube friends were here and we were just having a blast. After LA we went to San Fran, Portland, Seattle and Vancouver. Instead of continuing our journey around the country we headed back to LA. After spending two months living at our friends house in Venice, we decided that our only decision was to move here.

Now we live in a loft a block away from Venice beach. You can see the beach from our roof. We're loving life out here and I can't imagine living in ATL again.

It was not our intention to move out here when the road trip began. However, I couldn't be happier with our decision. Living out here for two months before moving turned out to be a great thing. We were able to see if living here was what we really wanted.

As for the road trip, neither of us were disappointed that we didn't finish it. I do feel bad for letting all of Phil's fans on the east coast down, but we'll make it up to them eventually:)