Friday, September 22, 2006

Ground Zero

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Entering this area would make even the most stone hearted person feel humble. The thought of everything that happened on the day is still in...

When You're Strange

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There are a lot of really odd people in New York, such as funny people waving their arms about screaming here and there, others in there own...

Wall Street

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The beautiful building where all the business folk go to gamble with their stocks and such would have been such a wonderful sight if it were...

Statue of Liberty

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One thing is for sure, you can't go to New York without visiting the Statue of Liberty. First impressions were that it was a little smal...
Thursday, September 21, 2006

Madison Square Garden

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This is another one of the famous locations seen in the films. Again it always looks so much larger on screen, and again when you are there ...

Time Square

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This is how I thought more of New York would be at least, if not America as a whole. Time Square looks a bit like Tokyo or Shanghai, with th...

Empire State

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Again, although I'm sure it was great in it's day, this building kinda sucked in real life. We can say we've seen it I guess but...

Waldorf Astoria

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Ok, now this really was an anti-climax. The great Waldorf Astoria looked more like a run down youth hostel. There are far more grand hotels ...

Lennon Memorial

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Just inside Central Park, opposite where John Lennon lived there was a small mosaic like memorial. It was called Strawberry Fields, after th...

Central Park

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Central Park was really nice. You can see why people need a place such as this. It takes you away from all the noise, dirt and rudeness of t...

Crap subway(3rd world)

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And I'm not talking about the sandwich joint here, although saying that, the branches of Subway found all across America tend to sell un...

School for Dogs

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This was one of those silly little stories that you get pretty much anywhere in the world but god was it stupid. The TV programme showed res...
Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Brooklyn Bridge

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This gigantic structure joins Manhattan to the less fortunate side of New York. The size was impressive enough but like most of New York it ...

Grand central railway

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Far too many times we have seen an area famous due to appearance in various films and thought it lacked the same sense of atmosphere. Grand ...

Chrysler Building

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One of those buildings that you tend to look forward to seeing if you are going to New York. My advice, don't. I like architecture but t...

Dat Boy Got Soul

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We were sitting in good old Macdonalds eating our food when this guy walks in, wearing his earphones and singing at the top of his voice. I ...

The Day The World Almost Ended

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As we took our first walk around New York there were fire engines and police cars whizzing around all over the place. It was complete chaos ...

New York, New York! (no really this time)

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The city that never sleeps, it's just resting it's eyes. We are always told that New York is alive all hours. Quite a shame that sho...
Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Our Old Friend Insanity!

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As we passed through customs back into the USA we were welcomed with the usual arrogant, over the top, status seeking 'I'm wearing a...
Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Detroit

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On our arrival at Detroit we were surprised that our holiday inn wasn't constructed from a stack of multi-storey cardboard boxes with a ...
Monday, September 11, 2006

It's Raining It's Pouring

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Apparently the most rainy day since 1970 or something, this one day where our umbrella decided to break. Also the one day where my training ...

Millenium Park

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This was one arty park. The first area of the park had two big block fountains with faces projected on them. Now and then the faces would op...

Sears Tower

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This is the tallest building in the USA and is the biggest blockiest looking structure I've ever seen. It looks a bit like a bunch of bi...
Friday, September 08, 2006

Half Advert, Half Disclaimer

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The adverts here are really irritating. Due to the fanatical 'I'll sue' mentality, the adverts present their product then spend ...
Thursday, September 07, 2006

Walmart Experience

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These things are massive and they have a little of pretty much everything. As well a food you can get electronics, furnature and sports stuf...

Sub Standard Subway

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Beware if you intend to park at the subway station. Not only do you have to pay your parking fee, you also have to purchase a $10 card to ho...

White House

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For the 'most powerful man in the world' this place of residence was really crap and small. You would think that they'd chuck in...

Land of the Free, My Arse!

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We were on our way to the White House when we stopped at some traffic lights. Suddenly a couple of regular police officers went all dramatic...
Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Botanical Gardens

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There are plenty of attractions in this area and most are free. The botanical gardens are pretty enough although on a very much smaller scal...

Lincoln Memorial

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This was one of the main sights I wanted to see in the US. It's always seemed to have an atmosphere about it when I've seen it on TV...

War Memorial

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We've seen a bunch of these now and they are always pretty impressive. This one is placed right between the Lincoln Memorial and Capitol...

Air Space Museum

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Again lots to see here, loads of old planes, space shuttle living quarters and even the monkey they first shot up into space. By the look of...

Capitol building

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Beautifully grand to see in real life. The entire area is quite impressive although they could do with some new grass. I imagined lush well ...
Monday, September 04, 2006

Airport Fun

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This is right after the attempted bombing of planes headed from the UK to USA. The damn terrorists have made check-in hell for us travelling...
Sunday, September 03, 2006

More Gambling

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We quickly learned to play on a variety of 1 cent and 5 cent machines to win. At one point one machine started to count up my prize. It kep...

Crappy Town

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Not everywhere in Vegas is as amazingly built as the area we were in. We had heard of an area where there was a light show tunnel that you c...

Mac King

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This guy was a first class act. We were given two "free" tickets whereby we could enter free of charge providing we first bought a...
Saturday, September 02, 2006

Biggest Pizza Ever

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Another testament to the fact that Americans eat big. And in Vegas as usual they go the extra yard. I ordered a pizza using our hotel room s...

Other Hotels/ Casinos

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The Paris hotel had a huge lifelike Eiffel Tower built outside along with a massive Arc de Triamph. They had a nice fountain outside and bea...
Friday, September 01, 2006

Timeshare

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One thing you will quickly notice in Vegas is that loads of hotels will offer great gifts as an incentive to attend a timeshare presentation...

Let The Gambling Begin!

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We started out sensible with only $10 to gamble. At the end of the evening we had won back our original $10 plus a further $14. From that mo...

New York New York!

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Well almost, this was the name of our theme hotel/casino in Las Vegas. It had a huge Statue of Liberty, a Brooklyn Bridge and a rollercoaste...
Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Fountain of Life

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This fountain had a whole bunch of animal sculptures. It's a good place to cool down in the baking hot sun. Probably the only sight to s...

Free Drinks Ahoy!

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Palm Springs is as hot as sauna. We could only stay outdoors for a few moments before running for cover in an air conditioned place. On one ...

Place of Comfort

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We stopped off at our latest hotel in Palm Springs, the local Travel Inn. As we entered we were a little bothered to see a disclaimer sign o...
Wednesday, August 23, 2006

San Deigo Beaches

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We UK folk always hear about the beautiful Californian beaches. Sadly Santa Monica and LA were a bit pants but San Deigo was another matter....
Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Eating Mexican

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They really like their spicey food here on the account that they are so close to Mexico. We head into a Mexican restaurant and quickly reali...

Seaworld

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This was something we considered a freebe from our 3 day Disney pass. We thought, as we were in San Deigo we would give it a shot. First imp...
Sunday, August 20, 2006

9/11

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I'm sorry to ramble on about this but why are people going so over the top with this still. Some guy stopped me filming at an outdoor sh...

Be Scared! Really Scared!

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Again the news to blame here, they hammer you with terrorist fear here. They make people believe that they are at war like the country is co...

News Time

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One thing that has put us off moving here is the news. FOX and CNN being the worst offenders. Each story is so one sided. They are so manipu...

Disney California Experience

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This was almost like another Disneyland only more focused on rides. They also had more parades featuring the Pixar characters such as the To...
Saturday, August 19, 2006

Vmk.com

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This has got to be the most addictive online game ever. It's like Disneyland online with a whole bunch of quests and mini games. You can...
Friday, August 18, 2006

Disneyland

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Yay we're here! For those of you who have never been, Disneyland is like stepping into a cartoon. All of the buildings have a very paint...
Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Hollywood Sign

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This is another one of Americas' famous places. It's funny that it was first just a sign for the housing estate, Hollywoodland. I wo...
Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Too Friendly?

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Another example of friendly folk, we were at a stall and some guy realized we were British and immediately asked 'Oh how is the weather ...
Monday, August 14, 2006

Universal Studios

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This was a groovy day out, almost like visiting Disney land. There were loads of rides and activities. We also got a digitally altered poste...

Hollywood Walk of Fame

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It's world famous and the one place you'd expect to be soooo glam, the walkway of the stars baby! Sadly this isn't really the ca...
Sunday, August 13, 2006

Celeb Spotting

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Downtown Beverly hills is a great place to go celeb spotting so they say. We checked out Rodeo Drive where there were a load of designer sho...
Saturday, August 12, 2006

Good Old Andy

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LA is home to a very good friend of ours Andy. As we were in the area we decided to pay him a visit. It was good to see someone who i knew f...
Tuesday, August 08, 2006

On the Road

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Driving seemed to be the easiest way to get around in most places. We hired cars in many cases so we could see more of what the USA had to o...
Monday, August 07, 2006

Baby You Can Drive My Car.

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Driving from Reno to LA is an epic journey to drive at the best of times. We however chose an even longer route via Big Sur (an area by the ...

Mini tornados

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We thought visiting areas on fault lines were crazy but when we seen mini tornadoes forming in front of our eyes up in Reno it was pretty sh...

Lake Tahoe

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This place is more like a beach than a regular lake. It spans miles across which gives it that seaside feel as well as good sand. A pleasant...
Saturday, August 05, 2006

Picnic by the Lake.

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We eventually arrived at a picnic spot near a 'lake'. This lake looked quite epic on the map but sadly turned out to be more like a ...

Bad Boys Bad Boys, Whatya Gunna Do

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On our way to a Nice romantic picnic in the country, Bobbi passed a police car and was traveling 5 miles an hour over the limit. They tailed...

Wine'o Adventures

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We drove to Nappa valley to visit the world famous wine yards they have there. When we arrived we were met with some of the most beautiful s...
Wednesday, August 02, 2006

Palace of Fine Arts

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This place was gorgeous looked like a cross between some epic palace in Rome and one of the buildings in Starwars Episode 1. It was a beauti...

Alcatraz & Hyde St Pier

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We again head out to the Golden Gate area of San Francisco only this time we decided to check out some of the pier areas. Alcatraz can be se...

The "Shaft" Trolley Ride

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One of the days we were out in San Francisco when we decided to take a tram ride. The trams added loads of character to the streets. They ga...
Sunday, July 30, 2006

Mini Tour of Silicon Valley

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This place is not quite what I expected (tall grand looking buildings) and even less how Paul imagined (a Matrix styled city made of green-...
Saturday, July 29, 2006

Golden Gate Bridge

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Here we are being swept away by the winds - so powerful although elsewhere its blistering hot! This giant famous bridge was pretty impressi...

Union Square

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This 97ft high Dewey Monument dominates the square erected in 1903 to commemorate the Spanish, American war. Union Square is San Francisco...

Lombard Street

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The San Francisco Trolley Bus. So many streets in San Francisco are built on hills. This particular street has been used in loads of Hollywo...

Home away from Home

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Whilst in Santa Clara commonly known as the Silicon Valley area, we stayed with family there Chits, Gaurav & their son Raayan who is suc...

First Impressions

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We found the American very friendly, we felt that anybody and everybody was happy enough to stop for a chit-chat. Almost everyone you meet t...
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Flying over an Erupting Volcano

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Whislt flying across North America i noticed a pink smoke in the distance on a clear blue sky day wh ich i thought was unusual, i thought it...

The United States of America!

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We're here! - will post soon.
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