Theres a bit of a chain of these places,  intersting name but there are a few christian groups and do gooders with filthy minds who have protested about the name.  They are called pink taco because the tacos are pink.   They also got into a bit of trouble for shaving a donkey and painting it […]

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I hate Seafood, infact we both do, but Joe’s Crabshack caught our attention in Newport Beach California. With a place looking this dodgy we are not going to miss out on giving it a go.  No crabs for me,- i’ll have the chicken please.   They had some pretty dodgy tshirts to…I got crabs from the […]

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Hows this for a cool retro pickup. Its a Chevy SSR, I took this shot at a 7/11 in LA when I was buying beers. Unfortunately they dont make them any more, they ran from 2003 to 2006. They had a 5.3 or 6 litre (same LL2 one Holden Uses) V8 in them so they […]

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Its absoluely beautiful here, warm sunny and clear (which is pretty weird for LA- usually you cant see much in front of you for thick pink smog) The pool at our hotel  the Thomson on Wilshire Blvd Beverley Hills looks like the place to be, well at least at their rooftop bar.  Time for a […]

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We left Washington at 6AM and the weather had turned to freezing, Last night it was a bit wet and cool, still in just shorts and T Shirt, This morning freezing.. We catch a small Delta airways flight to JFK in New York after a bit of delay due to bad weather. New York is […]

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Washington has a huge array of free museums called the Smithsodians, there cover just about all catergories, art, science, natural history, cultures etc. We visited the one of their air museums a few days back and saw the Concorde and Space Shuttle, today we visit the Air & Space museum in the city. It is […]

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This place is a washington institution and the chilli dog was amazing- called a half smoke it was a smoked sausage in a bun covered with tasty rich chilli, think my shirt wore most of it.  The place was packed and no wonder why.  The restaurant has been open since 1958 and came to fame during the […]

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The pentagon was a huge and powerful looking building, and yet another 9-11 legacy.This top photo is the repaired section which the plane went through. There is a huge gardens with intesting sculptures built as a memorial, one sculpture for each person who died in the event.     There were signs all around the Pentagon fenceline and car park  saying no […]

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washington is very similar to Canberra the way it is structured with iconic buildings dominating the cross roads. the city was base on Paris, which you can see with the roundabouts and diangle streets.

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Beautiful gardens and pretty impressive building. unfortunately the big guy didn’t invite us in for a fried chicken dinner, suppose he’s a busy man trying to fix up this stuffed up country and planning his trip to see Julia. The gardens were very lush and pretty flash, with plenty of squirrels hopping around gathering nuts and […]

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How good are these little piggies, and check out the fancy attachment device

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