Category: Travel

The Green Card arrived ridiculously early compared to other lottery winners. The process is over!

The wait at LAX ended up being 2.5 hours. They moved us out to the ‘outback’ area of LAX where I have been a couple of times before, but never for this long. This was my view for 2.5 hours. The staff were lovely and bought around juice and water and put the entertainment system…

While you may be thinking that making the NY flight would be what I was most stressed about, truth is, I wasn’t even thinking that. Before I could even get to the flight I had to ‘become American’! The only difference from what I was used to is on the plane, I didn’t have to…

It was a particularly overcast morning but you can still see some nice shots of the Manhattan skyline. The two higher points in the distance are the Chrysler Building and the Empire State. I have to say it looks a lot better from the train than in the video! Sounds like the Scenic Railway at…

Thank you all for your patience while waiting for my posts to start up… I have struggled badly the past week with jetlag, acclimatising (I will never complain about Melbourne 40 degree days again!) and then I had to get the apartment all pretty. Back to normal now though. 🙂 If you are flying to…

Yes, it is Groundhog Day! Even though I am nowhere near Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania at the moment, today is a big deal! If Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow, then winter will be here for another six weeks. This morning – he saw his shadow! Six more weeks of cold! Yay! This is what happened last year…

Previously, it was hard to EVER top the Old Navy ‘Stripes all round’ ad that, from the minute I first saw it back on the 2006 Holiday, it has stuck ever since. To see what I am talking about click here – But it may have been topped. I think the first night I got…