Day 11 – Friday 30th September 2005
The day began with a welcome lay in, before we returned the rental car. Promising ourselves we would have a big final night together, it meant a quiet day on the beach. The weather did not agree with us, and did its best to dissuade us with the fog [...]

Day 10 Thursday 29th September 2005
We checked out of the Orbit Hostel and made our way to the airport to return the rental car and catch a bus to San Diego, setting for the movie of the moment, Anchorman.
On the way we pulled over at Denny`s for yet another breakfast. Two things were accomplished here, [...]

Day 8 – Tuesday 27th September 2005
Having checked out of the Hotel, we were picked up putside by the Budget Car Rental bus, who ferried us to their main depot so we could pick up a 7 seater which we would use to make the trip to Los Angeles.
Fresh from driving the 400bhp Dodge Viper, [...]

Every weekday morning, the Stratosphere hold a $25 no limit holdem poker tournament. I decided I would play as I was up early. Not really having played live poker poker before I was a bit nervous I`d give my hand away too easily, but it turns out that at that low limit the players are [...]

Sunday was a bit of a write off sue to our lack of sleep Saturday night. I layed in until around 2 when I got up and went to the pool for an hour. I then got Sam and we went to a Nascar themed diner for Chilli Dogs. I dont think Dave and Flan [...]

With a 13.45 flight from JFK to Las Vegas, wechecked out of the hostel and headed straight to the airport. I thought our airline, JetBlue, would be a small outfit but they had their own terminal with excellent facilities.
The only bad thing I can say about the airline was due to the incident I had [...]

The previous evening, whilst on our quest to find where New York’s beautiful girls went in the evening, we had stumbled into the San Gennaro street festival in Little Italy. This was a huge street festival which consisted mainly of every type of food you can imagine. As it was held in Little Italy, it [...]

Day 3: 22nd September 2005
After all the events of the previous day we were not up quite as early as expected, but once we were up, we decided to go up to Central Park and have a wander. After brunch (yes, we did brunch) we hailed a cab, whcih took us to the southern end [...]

Day 2: 21 September 2005
Waking up refreshed and full of beans, we were ready to see the sights. Breakfast was taken at an all-American diner, then it was first stop Empire State Building to get a birds eye view of all that lay before us. Fortunately it was a beautiful day without a cloud in [...]

Day 1 – 20th September 2005
The four of us arrived in New York after our flight, checked into our hostel and promptly went straight out to explore. Having arrived at 8pm it was out to sample the nightlife rather than do any sightseeing.