Viimeinen viikko kului rattoisasti Washington DC:ssä ja New Yorkissa. DC:n ilmasto oli suorastaan trooppinen, samoin eläimistö, ja nyt koristaakin käsivarsiani komea mäkäränpuremarivistö ja paidan kainaloita hikirenkaat! Ihanaa... Museoita kiertelin ja perusnähtävyyksiä, ajelin New Yorkin mahtavalla metrolla ympäriinsä ja kävelin korttelitolkulla ihmettelemässä ison maailman meininkiä! [View Full Entry]

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http://www.foodincmovie.com/ Hey Guys, Normally you would be reading about the latest celebrity we have spotted or about a random adventure we go on but we wanted to take just a minute to talk to you about an amazing movie we saw today. The movie is called 'Food Inc.' and it deals with problems associated with the American Food Industry. It delves into such issues as diseases associated with diet (eg E.Coli outbreaks, Diabetes and Cancers), small farmers with good intentions being shut out by the big guys, Genetically Modified Foods and animal health issues such as the miserable live [View Full Entry]

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The New York leg of our trip got off to a rocky start. We waited in the airport for two hours for our college friend to pick us up, but she never showed. We still haven't heard from her, so we're not sure what happened there. We finally decided to reserve a hostel and found a nice, clean, boutique hostel off Broadway. After we got settled we figured, hey we're on Broadway, let's see a show. So we asked the front desk where to go. Anne Hatheway was performing in Shakespeare in the Park in a tiny outdoor theater. We stood [View Full Entry]

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I come from a town so small there are no stop lights and the sheriffs department drives through once a week, even if we don't need it. My daughter had never been to a big city. Being a teenager (18) she was sure the grass was greener on the other side of the fence and wanted to move to one. We had a blast - but she changed her mind. LOL The traffic did her in more than about anything. The other thing was how rude those in service positions are there. She is a photographer - or hopes to be [View Full Entry]

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Paris left me feeling hollowed out a bit. Like looking at a beautiful apple and biting into it and it’s not bad, per se… it’s just a little floury and every fourth bite has a couple of seeds in it. As some had warned me, gay Paris isn’t the glazed cherry some make it out to be, so I’ll save that kind of savouring for the South. So, a little irritated and a little sad leaving my family for the final time before settling in Vancouver, Jian and I hit Iceland like we were the Titanic, only we never had the [View Full Entry]

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Never underestimate the pull of Australian pubs in NYC. We had our celebrity quota filled last night.... The waitresses were in a flurry over Ed Westwich, "Chuck" from "Gossip Girl", (not that I had any idea who he was). His six homie mates were great value, laughing at my offer of giant Fosters matches and high-fiving me in a cheesy fly-by trail as they exited the pub via my hostess post. Chuck was introverted, grim and unfriendly. No high five. And his jeans were skin tight. Nuff said. On the potential celebrity sighting list, the building I'm working on is a [View Full Entry]

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I've never seen the movie version of 9 to 5, and all I really know is that it starred Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, Dolly Parton and Dabney Coleman, and had a title song by Parton. In the musical version, the roles are now played by Allison Janney, Stephanie J. Block, Megan Hilty and Marc Kudish, and the title song starts off the show and sets up the women's stories. And that's part of my problem with the show, too much set up. Half of the first act is spent showing the women meeting and how bad things are under the reign [View Full Entry]

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"Throw a shrimp on the barbie!", chant the Yanks as we Aussies cruise their streets with our funny accents and insistence on the term 'prawn'. Little do we know just how exotic the whole BBQ concept is to New Yorkers. In a city where gas bottles are outlawed, there's only so much one can chargrill over a mound of coal in less than an afternoon. Why would you bother? Real New Yorkers don't. 24-hour availability of every conceivable fodder tends to negate the need for effort, whilst killing a little of the magic too. But for some reason the lip-smacking, mouthwatering [View Full Entry]

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Saturday, 13 June (Empire State Building): We left the KOA today basically just to go up the Empire State Building and jog in Central Park. After driving the 15 or 20 miles to Beacon to catch the train to NYC, we parked and ran for the train, that left just seconds before we reached the platform. The next train wasn’t due for about an hour, so we headed back to the car. On the way, a guy stopped us to ask if we had tickets. Being stupid tourists, we thought the two tickets marked $15.50 each that he’d sell us for [View Full Entry]

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Friday, 12 June (Philadelphia KOA to NYC KOA via Statue of Liberty): We left the Philadelphia/West Chester KOA a bit after 8am , and after another couple of glitches in the GPS routing, arrived at Liberty State Park in New Jersey. Parking was $7.00 and the final road in was made of cobblestones and VERY rough! The ferry terminal is attached to an old railroad terminal and kind of neat. They have snacks, drinks, restrooms available both in the terminal and on the ferries. We had bought tickets online for the noon ferry, but arriving at 10:30am we asked if we [View Full Entry]

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