Geo: 47.6034, -122.33Another great place. Stayed with friend TA & girlfriend who had a giant bunny rabbit & assorted other pets. Went to Pike Place Market -and the Space Needle and Coffee Houses of course & some good bookshops near the university or the "U" District(& the cavernous University Bookstore, 4326 University Way NE). I remember in the bars there were laminated cards saying try this nice cocktail - cider & lager (snakebite) aka looney juice that you'd get thrown out of some places at home for asking for! Also saw a Meg Ryan being filmed in something - Sleepless in Seattle perhaps?? And took a trip to North Bend in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains, the place where the pilot episode of 'Twin Peaks' was filmed & went to the 'Damn Fine Cherry Pie' ... read more

Geo: 36.7882, -114.403We drove from SF-LV in a mustang with some obnoxious French people (friends of friends) & arrived as sun coming up, just C. and I were awake - well he was driving so I was the bag man - & LV looked like a mirage from the distance after all the desert driving, so cool, mind you it was 14 years ago so can't remember that much! But stupidly we didn't go Grand Canyon (even though it was discussed) always regret that. But the casinos in LV are amazing - we stayed in the Circus Circus casino hotel which was mad, with smarty curtains, candy strip carpet & velour blankets - all very Willie Wonka. Won nothing when we were straight but seemed to have success when caned. It was so hot there you ... read more

Geo: 41.8842, -87.6324Stayed in burbs with college friend Skin & it was a bit mad getting there, we had his address but no explanation that was not in fact in the city at all (or directions), so we get in taxi at the airport & show the man the address who runs us as we don't know where exactly it is - he was pretty mean actually. We go to information where an 80 year old woman helps us but apparently we are missing the post code or something so it all takes ages & of course we only have the phone number of Skins friend who doesn't know us & Skin won't be home til 5pm! So anyway she figures out what we have to do which involves a slow train to the middle of ... read more

Geo: 44.0109, -79.2662Stayed with Mum & her friend Ann. I remember climbing the CN Tower & seeing the Toronto Blue Jay's playing in SkyDome & going to a cool empty nighgclub where we saw a Miss Haversham dressed woman, and if you ask directions they tell you what bus to get even it's only 1 stop!Then Niagara Falls - amazing - and theme park of some sort. Crossed over to US on GreyHound.... read more

Geo: 50.0878, 14.4205Shared a cabin on the train from Holland to Czechoslavakia with 2 more people one of who whom was male blonde possibly German or Austrian ( could picture him in lederhosen) seemed a bit pious and knelt down to say his prayers which was a bit unusual. The other had a guitar & you guessed it had an impromtu concert with Kum-by-ah & the Way to Amarillo (I hate this kind of carry on) and all other travellers seemed to love it and were crowding in to the cabin to join in. We hung out in the corridor - where I seem to remember were some pretty gross toilets so early in the journey. Anyway we did get to go to bed only to be woken up in the middle of the night with ... read more