It's so nice to go travelling......

So it's the last day and a long, long day (or two days really) travelling home. The sun is out in Vegas, it will be sad to leave this lovely weather but it will also be nice to see my Furbies again. Work on the other hand I dread going back to, all the friends and colleague's that are leaving this month, back to the proposturous ideas and plans that are going ahead without any proper thought or research - all the sycophants! How depressing is that and I havent even got as far as thinking about the weather!



We got up at about 9am, had breakfast (the last time I'll have buttermilk pancakes for a while) and then went back to pack - it took two hours we had collected so much over the last two weeks!

So its now off to McCarren Airport (again) for that long wait and then the long trip home.

So what do I miss about America? The politeness (everyone says 'good morning' or 'hello') the weather - oh that gorgeous wearther! The shopping!! The way the Americans seem to treat their pets as one of the family. I will also miss the Californian Pizza Kitchen's spicy sausage pasta and the sweet orange juice. The way they love the relatively young small history they do have instead of like us just bulldozing it to put flats up in its place.

What will I not miss about America? the publlic toilets or restrooms - why oh why do the partitions have to have so much of a gap between the wall and the door that an anorexic could squeeze through it? I dont want to see women sqautting when I walk in the loo!! Not even the Americans can explain why this is the case. The toilets! OK, I know you can see a theme here - I dont know what is different from theirs but I think Alan says they use a suction flush rather than ours using water weight(?) I dont know but they are horrid - you see everything floating around in this pond that is the loo - bloody awful. The food! Although some of the food is very good there is always far too much of it and everything is loaded with sugar or corn syrup - even things like cole slaw and mayonnaise! After two weeks of overload and over sweet I crave a Sunday roast or just vegetables but most of all CURRY!

TV - what appalling TV they have out there. You'd think being way before us in having hundreds of TV stations that there would be some quality - but no, its appalling! Not to mention the repeats!! And then the adverts - every other advert is for a fast food or restaurant chain - Marie Callender, Olive Garden, Pizza Hut, Carls Jnr - you can see why they are so fat! They even have Barry Scott over there - 'I'm Barry Scott and I'm now Global' - idiot! I also wont miss waking up on Sunday morning to the sound of Alan putting on the TV to listen (and laugh) at the TV evangelists telling us that Darwin was a mad man suffering from some kind of delusion!

But most of all I wont miss that brown, hot water they call coffee - or cooooorfee!!! YUK!!! Free refils?? You couldnt get a wake up call from their coffee if you drank a gallon of the damn stuff. If I go to Starbies I always ask for an extra shot and the look I get from the Barista is like I've asked him to take his clothes off!