2024 - Trip #11 to USA and a brief stay in Canada! T minus 3 sleeps!

So here we are once again, about to embark on a holiday to the country where I have ongoing arguments with automatic toilets.  A country where the political climate is currently having it looking like one major nut-house. A country where Twatwaffle Trump and his disciples have the Woogaroo Lunatic Asylum looking like a Teddy Bears Picnic. A country where it's insanity can only be possibly be outdone by one single thing - my love for Walmart!!! Of course we are talking about the United States of America!

I have made myself a promise to post on this blog every single day, just as I did on my first visit to the USA in 2012. No exceptions! Challenge accepted!  

This trip will be a little bit different to previous ones as we will be starting in New York and working our way back to LA.  We have actually gone directly to New York once before which proved interesting to say the least.  I suffered jet lag more than I do when flying to LA which led to some fairly questionable moments. For example - we had decided to see a show on Broadway (you know.....when in Rome) early in our visit.   We purchased front row seats to The Motown Show which was based on the life and music of Berry Gordy who was the founder of the Motown record label. I seriously LOVE that genre and was very excited to be going to the show which was being played on the very famous "Broadway".  By the way, yes, the neon lights ARE bright on Broadway (thank you George Benson).  Anyway, the Bear and I took our seats in the very front row where we were close enough to be passed off as cast members.  The lights dimmed and the elegant curtains parted and so began The Motown Show on Broadway.... in the Big Apple.  A concrete jungle where dreams are made of (thank you Alicia Keys) and a bucket list destination for endless numbers of people.   The Bear claims that once the show started, we were receiving funny looks from some of the cast members although didn't know why.  That was until a delicate noise came from my direction. A snore. I wasn't sitting there watching The Motown Show.  I was visiting The Blanket Show (thank you Dad) ..... in other words, I was fast asleep! What's more, I slept through the entire performance!  If the cast members were offended by my trip to slumberland, they needed not to worry.  It wasn't personal. Sleeping in public at main events after suffering from jetlag became notorious.  A few trips later, when taking my daughter, Alyx, to The Honda Stadium in Anaheim to see her beloved Anaheim Ducks (ice hockey) play against a Canadian team, I again drifted off into the land of nod...which was amazing given that 1: The arena was brightly lit unlike the dark in the Broadway theatre, and 2:  The noise at an ice hockey game seriously could wake the dead. 

Anyway, that's enough pre-trip waffle.  Please look forward to my trials and tribulations of USA Trip 11!