Im actually writing this blog above the Atlantic (LA=>Frankfurt) on my new Notebook I bought for $500. Indeed the last week in the states has been a bit of a shopping spree. Anyway lets get into it. Immediately after my last blog I went walking around New York in the early evening, without a doubt my favourite time of the day in any part of t...

We arrived into pretty exhausted after a nine hour flight.  We'd left Nadi on Thursday night at 10 pm and arrived in LA at half one Thursday afternoon after crossing the international date line, so we were pretty confused.  Having said all that though, we managed to locate Mum and Lydia in a nearby arrivals hall and I have to say Lydia looked wo...

Well me and Al are hanging out at my brothers pad in LA having a few beers waiting to take off to LAX. Flight leaves in 5.5 hours and we are packed and ready to go. LAX to Taipei-Bangkok. Sounds like a pretty awful and boring flight, but we have been accustomed to waiting. Funny story, we were actually supposed to take off last night, but Alex w...

The land of opportunity, the land of the beautiful people, the USA. They forgot to mention its the land of Nutcases. Sorry if you are American, I'm sure you are quite normal. It's just that the minority do tend to stick in your mind. Los Angeles, Hollywood even, was our place of residence for the 3 nights in this city. We stayed at the USA Hoste...

yuck, five hour layover in LAX, Malaysia Airlines asked us to sign a disclaimer waiving any responsibility on their part if Malaysia was to not issue us a VISA. It was a little disconcerting and we had plenty of time to think about it on the 20hr plan ride ahead! I though we were going to make the news, 'Canadian couple breaks into Malaysia!', "...

Staying up until 3am to finish our packing, meant that both of us were a bit bleary eyed when the alarm went off this morning. Still to her credit Lynne leapt out of bed at 9am without complaint and only a few expletives. Although we thought we'd thrown out a lot of the junk that we'd gathered on our trip so far and were also sending a box full ...

Got to LA but was denied my chilli dog and ride in a yellow cab as flight was delayed, but managed to have a quick fag and a chuckle at the stopid Customs guard who looked just like the guy in King of the Hill... "You don't look like Jade (inspecting my passport)." "Sorry?" "You don't look like Jade, Ma'am." "Er (slight panic - he's got a gun an...

So we've spent the day in LA a nine hour layover has been a bit much. However, a very nice fellow at the information kiosk directed us to Santa Monica Place near Santa Monica Boulevard. (someone tell me what song that comes from). We went to see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at Mann's Chinese Theatre - completely by accident! That was quite ...

Landed at Los Angeles after the 16 hour flight from