In September/October of 2023, my wife Erin and I took our first holiday in 20 years and spent 5 weeks travelling in the United States of America. We managed to sneak in between Trump presidencies so the place was relatively normal, and even Elon Musk had barely started his trip off the rails.
I did daily updates on Facebook which people seemed to enjoy, so by popular demand I copy and pasted those posts to a WordPress Blog and here we are!
- September (25th through 30th)
- Day 1 – America, f*ck yeah! (Brisbane to USA)
- Day 2 – Dinosaurs, Culture, and the universe in Los Angeles
- Day 3 – Hollywood stars and Peterson cars
- Day 4 – The holocaust, and a road trip to Vegas
- Day 5 – The Grand Canyon by bus, by helicopter, and by foot
- Day 6 – Las Vegas sucks but the food is good
- October (1st through 30th)
- Day 7 – New York, New York! (New York)
- Day 8 – Niagra Falls and Canada (briefly)
- Day 9 – More Niagra, less moose
- Day 10 – Philidelphia, and living in an Amish Paradise
- Day 11 – Graves and statues in Washington DC, and a space museum
- Day 12 – Back to NYC for Museum of the dog, a Stantent Island ferry trip, and a lost passport
- Day 13 – A rainy 9/11 Memorial and Chicago musical theatre
- Day 14 – Central Park, a castle, and the most expensive crappy steak I ever ate
- Day 15 – Collecting a hire car, and off we drive to Pennsylvania
- Day 16 – A funicular in Pittsburgh, and a laundromat in Washington (…. PA, not DC)
- Day 17 – COSI in Columbus, and Hooters in Cincinnati
- Day 18 – The Cincinnati Zoo, a factory for cheesecakes, and wtf is with the pharmaceuticals adverts?
- Day 19 – A pocket knife museum, Nashville’s Country Music Hall Of Fame, and illness strikes
- Day 20 – Terrorist llamas, Rock & Soul in Memphis, and Elvis’ house sure sucks
- Day 21 – A jazz cruise in New Orleans
- Day 22 – An air boat ride in the bayous of Louisiana, and French quarter scammers in New Orleans
- Day 23 – Baton Rouge breakfast, lunch with gators, and we’ve landed in Houston
- Day 24 – The Houston Space Centre, and a pillow insult in Waco
- Day 25 – Off to Waco for a Dr Pepper pilgrimage and Fixer Upper Silobration
- Day 26 – Dallas Aquarium, Texas high school football, and finally some beagles!
- Day 27 – Paris with a cowboy hat, the worlds smallest skycraper, a giant shovel… it’s non-stop excitement in Witchita Falls
- Day 28 – Returning to Dallas via the bowie knife in Bowie named after a guy called Bowie
- Day 29 – Gardening in the Dallas Arboretum, and our first glimpse of the 2023 US Beagle National
- Day 30 – Stolen numberplates and our first full day of Beagle National
- Day 31 – High stakes auctioning and 15″ showing at the Beagle National
- Day 32 – Playing hooky from the dog show so I could hoon around Dallas in a golf cart checking out crime scenes
- Day 33 – A quick flight back to Los Angeles to check out a pier and overpay for a hotel without air conditioning
- Day 34 – Exploring Venice before making our way back to Australia
- Day 35 – Scene missing (or, how to lose 24 hours on a 14 hour plane ride)
- Day 36 – Home sweet home