setting off for the USA

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OK, hi to all of you's who made it to my first weblog!! i hope i do this properly and it dont end up looking like crap,
So i started off from Auckland on june 7th 2005, heading for LAX where (i was asked for money almost as soon as i got off the plane) and had an 8 hour stop over and enough time to get out of the airport and and explore a lil bit. I decided to take a taxi to Venice beach seeing as it was sunny as and not a cloud in the sky. I walked the venice beach boardwalk and ran into some crazy ass dude who i had to put up with telling me that "this is where i live!!, on the street player!!!" whilst he sipped his forty ounce from a paper bag and screamed at some other crazies...
but they werent all bad as i also met a "famous to be" rapper whom i bought his cd off for the bargain price of $7.
From LA i went to Charlotte, North Carolina where i spent an hour or so talking to a nice old couple and eating my first american donut.
Then it was the home stretch to Logan international airport in Boston where i was picked up by my Uncle Brian and we set off for home!!!

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Photos

Ric an mummy
just about to go through!!

rapper an me
This is the guy who sold me his own music cd that him and his brother made, he said they had sold around 10,000 copies so far

Venice beach out-door gym
this is where huge guys go to work out and show off, so i fitted right in.

basket ball courts
i stopped and watched some dudes trash talk each other while they were playing B-ball...my gym in the background

news stand
I thought these newstands were quite cool when i arrived....apparently they aren't

venice beach statue
just down from here i saw like 2 one dollar notes just lying in the sand, i thought it was some kinda joke so i never picked them up.

LAX and lost
so i took another taxi back to LAX and ended up having to walk around the whole airport looking for my termanal, it is one big place!!

over charlotte, North Carolina
ya gotta have atleast one photo from the plane...

Home, USA
this is my aunty and uncle's house in North Reading and actually one of the smaller house's in the street, our dog murphy on the highly manicured lawn

Home, USA
this is the view from the front door, more huge houses...