This is the End

Welcome to the conclusion. The beginning is sadly way at the bottom, due to the terrible formatting blogger insists on. It is a format that works well for essays and typical blogs, with the most relevant at top, but is not ideal for a continuous story. Nevertheless, this is the format they insist on so here ends the blog. I must first take this moment to congratulate myself, having not done a dissertation this is the longest thing I have ever written, and I never really believed I would finish it. The journey finished for me on July 4th, American Independence Day. And just over a year later the blog is finished, just as momentous an occasion.

Of course, plenty more happened after Ed left, I was in California until September. There was a world cup final, a tour of California, a visit to vineyards, to a Budweiser factory, shooting in the mountains, local San Diego bars with 75 cent beer, two days of door to door marketing, another car crash and the eventual return to the UK. However, this blog was simply about the journey across the country. On July 4th 2010, I returned the rental car early in the morning, sold my uncle's parking spaces for an exorbitant fee to revellers with cars and watched the fireworks.

The trip certainly had it's problems. The breakdown in Texas, the England vs USA football match, Ed's shoes, car crashes, all that crazy stuff you know happened in Las Vegas and plenty more. However, it was still an amazing trip and I hope I can make a similar journey in the future. Hopefully, with less time on the bus. So I shall end by saying thank you to the people that offered us hospitality and friendship, thank you to these United States of America for having this beautiful and diverse country and finally, a thank you to the Greyhound Bus. While far from perfect, the bus offered us the only affordable way across these lands, we could not have done it without you.