Blogs from North America - page 8241

Nifty feature of TravelBlog.....U.S. States in which I have visited. 25/50.....pretty weak. I need to get after the U.S. like I have in Australia and New Zealand. Visited US States Map Peace, A ... read more

Telus Music Festival North America » Canada » British Columbia » Whistler Village By Sazzle DazzleApril 16th 2007 A week in Whistler and the free festival has certainly been my savour! The music has been awesome and I've discovered a new understanding and appreciation for regee and drum and bass again! This scene is massive over here so I've been loving the vibes! So we saw Bassnectar on Saturday night and then Steve Marley, K9 and Jr Gong on Sunday. It was immense and Byron and I bounced around in the crowd the entire afternoon. We hit Tommy's after where some wicked chick from Toro... read more

San Francisco until the 1849 Californian gold rush was just a sleepy hamlet of 300 people that changed dramatically after the rush. Once installed in the hotel decided to explore locally as I had arrived in the morning and so to maximize my time headed for Union Square. San Francisco is all hills and like South America all the interesting stuff seems to be at the top, or “it’s only 2/3 blocks away” (what they don’t mention is that each block is at least 200 metres). Eventually found Union Square, a square in the true sense, very much a meeting place and an area for displaying artwork .On each side is some of the top stores in the States, If you have unlimited credit this is the place to shop, Macys, Tiffany, Saks etc are ... read more

As I said in my last entry lets have some fun,USA lika Australia is a big country ,when I say big I also mean the people so I am including the PIE scale as and when I see it . For those of you who don't know what the PIE scale is:- Many moons ago in the UK there was a comic called The Beano or The Dandy in it was a character called Desperate Dan a real strong man ,he had an enormous appetite ,his favourite food was Cow Pie,they contained a whole Cow they were huge so the Pie scale was born .The PIE scale is graded by how many Desperate Dan pies one can eat. The number of Pies relates to the size of the person 1 being the smallest 10 being ... read more

From Grand Canyon we headed south to Flagstaff and there were those two digits popping up again as we spied our first 66 attraction, the Museum Club. Unfortunately at 11 A.M. we were about 12 hours too early in the day to appreciate the atmosphere and enjoy any live music in the place voted ‘Readers favourite Dance club’ in ‘Country America Magazine’ but we were able to pop in and enjoy the route 66 print material in the booths and the amateur taxidermist owner’s handiwork. Passing the famous wooden carved Twin Arrows, that had obviously seen better days, our next detour was just 6 miles south of our main route to the world’s best-preserved and first proven meteorite impact site. Amazingly our ‘tour guide’ of the hole in the ground managed to make the ‘tour’ last ... read more