Around a warm and damp Houston

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mmmm BBQ – Texas style

 

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“Remember In this household we butter the bacon”

Good night sleep beds were really good, so was the complimentary breakfast buffet, still don’t understand why e-mericans are so fat… bacon, cheese omelette, muffins, pancakes, greasy sausages.. This grey gravy stuff with crumbed burger in it…Iced donuts, sugar coated cereals… fortunately I found a banana..will it be chocolate coated or sugar frosted inside..na it’s […]

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Wonder if this place was named after Whitney

Got into Houston about 5, picked up the car, (a lovely Hyundai Elantra) then headed to city. Within a few minutes we were giggling at stupid America roadside signs for saving your soul, giant burger offers and run down suburbia… The hotel is pretty good and shower was the best thing. It’s fairly grey hot […]

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Welcome to the United States, home of liberty and freedom

We got into LAX got bags and through immigration pretty quickly then walked a few terminals to our next flight where the miss management started. It looks like they have tried to add All this new security screening (that no one was really paying much attention to) and forgot to scale it for number of […]

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Any more left we would be flying it.

It’s a good feeling turning left as you enter the plane and today it’s row 1 seat a and c, you can’t get closer to the front  unless you are flying the thing.  the champagne comes out as soon as we take our seat followed by gift pack of toiletries and pyjamas.  A few Fat […]

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Beer for breaky- just cos I could

We were fast tracked jumping the long queues in security and  customs and got to the Air New Zealand lounge in 5 minutes of leaving the taxi.  Air New Zealand do a lounge share with Virgin who we are travelling with. Then as we are on holidays and it was after 7AM, we thought a […]

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not many sleeps now

This time next week. Bookmark this site for a few weeks of Rocky’s drunken ramblings

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