LA is a monster. It could eat you up; spit you out and it’s clear that it’s done that to many people already. Never seen so many daoine as a mheabhair in all my life..not even in NYC. It’s basically many cities in one massive suburb so a car is essential. We stayed downtown the [...]

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These days airports are more like shopping malls. Have you ever missed your flight because it has taken so long to navigate your way through the stores to get to your gate? Have you ever been to this SkyMall? http://www.kasperhauser.com/skymaul_site/FlipBook.html

Hasn’t quite hit home that I’m flying back to the UK tonight after nearly 11 months away. My flight leaves Nadi at 10.50pm and I arrive in LA at 1pm on the same day. I effectively reach the US before I left Fiji due to crossing the International dateline. I sort of gain a day. [...]

Well we finally made it back to the States on a stopover, one full loop around the world!  But we aren’t quite done yet though.  The Dominican Republic is next on our list, but there was no direct flight from Fiji!  We couldn’t even fly to the DR in one day so we had to [...]

The shuttle was right on time. 3:15 AM, just as promised. The van was already filled with middle-of-the-nighters getting ready to travel places, see things, do stuff. A couple headed for New Zealand thought THEY had the market on distance. Ha! I’m going to Antarctica. That was the trump card, for sure. An icy fog [...]

Hello Everyone,      I am getting packed and ready for my trip. I am just finishing up the last minute details and I will be off early tomorrow am.

Last year I wrote about hiphop in Kunming, China, and finally, the New York Times have picked up on the phenomena: Now Hip-Hop, Too, Is Made in ChinaBy JIMMY WANG BEIJING – A week before Americans tune in to the Super Bowl, another televised mega-event will kick off on the other side of the globe. [...]

I had a plan. First, a 6 AM wakeup call. That’s when the insurance company in Kansas City would answer their phones. I got through to a fellow named John. The bottom line, according to John, was that I was covered for $100 per day UP TO a max of $500 for “mechanical breakdown” problems. [...]

With my brain cursing me I woke up to a breakfast of biscuits and gravy, not talking some digestives with bistro but a US cooked breakfast with American-style biscuits and a type of thick gravy made from, actually no idea but was just what was needed this morning. Gary had admitted to being gay the [...]