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Previous | Contents | Next The bill for our first night having vastly exceeded our budget, Heather opened our $15/Day book for the first time — I think it was Frommer — and discovered the Hotel Seton on 40th Street, west of Lexington. Midtown, right where we wanted to go. We checked out ... Read more
Previous | Contents | Next § 10 August 1980: The Air Nauru flight is turbulent, flying through cloud most of the time. The hostess is generous, giving us a cooked breakfast when we ask for extra sandwiches. Nauru is more grey drizzle. The runway is as long as the island is wide and ... Read more
Previous | Contents | Next This was May 2000. Mobile networks, roaming arrangements and phone charges have improved a bit since then! The iPhone was still 6-1/2 years or so away. ~ Ian So here we are, leaving LA on Day One of our road trip, doing what I’ve always wanted to ... Read more
Previous | Contents | Next It’s not often that your flight plans align with a world-shaking geopolitical event, but we managed it in September 2001. Our plan — after joining the Queensberry contingent at the WPPI show in Las Vegas — was to host a round of seminars in Canada, England and Ireland, and ... Read more
Previous | Contents | Next March 2001 This was Queensberry’s first WPPI trade show in Las Vegas. ~ Ian Well, the Trade Show is over and we’re back in the LAX Departure Lounge. It feels good to relax. The show was a non-stop assault. We’d been pretty busy even before we left home, what ... Read more
Previous | Contents | As we drove east across northern New York State the trees were in full leaf. Leaving Quebec, further north, everything had just been greening up, as the buds formed and opened. It would have been nice to go back for another look at Edmonton later in the Spring. ... Read more
Previous | Contents | NextI wrote my last 2000 despatches back in sunny Los Angeles. We’d spent the last four weeks driving through Alberta, Ontario, Quebec and New England. Having flown back from Toronto we were lying low for a few hours before catching the flight back home. ~ Ian We’ve driven ... Read more
Contents It was our first visit to the States barring a few days in the North East in 1980. NEXT
Previous | Contents | Next Before Canada, a little segue into food. It’s fair to say that sometimes we don’t so much sight-see when we travel as progress from restaurant to restaurant. This trip was no different. I’d always wanted to drive across America — and yes, I know that every generation ... Read more
Previous | Contents | Next Those of you with a literary bent will not be surprised to hear that I was reading Tom Wolfe at the time. Others will notice that it’s pre-iPhone and pre-mobile internet, and that take-out coffee hadn’t arrived in New Zealand yet. ~ IanWell, gosh — we’ve been ... Read more