Travel Journal of USA

image Yip you heard that right, I’ve just returned from a 2 week holiday in the States and all tanned out.  So much has happened over the last year that I still find myself pinching my arms (its the only unbruised area ok) just to make sure I’m not dreaming!

On 2 April I joined the family on a trip to America to visit friends and experience the culture, sights and sounds.  2 weeks, 5 states and lots of coffee… here begins the travel journal of sorts, mysteries and observations including hitchhiking, breaking in to a house we house sat and Walmart!

Up next… An Official Alien ~ 2 April 2009

Fun: Wise old man

A retired man moves near a junior high school. He spends the first few weeks of retirement in peace and quiet. However, when a new school year begins, three young boys beat on every trash can they encounter every day on their way home from school.

Finally, the man decides to take action and walks out to meet the boys. He says, “You kids are a lot of fun. I’ll give you each a dollar if you’ll promise to come around every day and do your thing.” The kids continue to do a bang-up job on the trashcans.

After a few days, the man tells the kids, “This recession’s really putting a big dent in my income. From now on, I’ll only be able to pay you 50 cents to beat on the cans.” The noisemakers are displeased, but they accept his offer.

A few days later, the retiree approaches them again. “Look,” he says, “I haven’t received my Social Security check yet, so I’m not going to be able to pay more than 25 cents. Will that be OK?”

“A freakin’ quarter?” the drum leader exclaims. “If you think we’re going to waste our time beating these cans around for a quarter, you’re nuts. We quit.”

Bucket list meme

Got this in an email and thought it kinda fun and why the hell not right….

Things you have done during your lifetime:
(x) Gone on a blind date
(x) Skipped school
(x) Watched someone die
(x) Been to Africa
(x) Been to Europe
(x) Been to Middle East
(x) Been to South America
( ) Been to North America
( ) Been to Asia
(x) Been on a plane
(x) Been on a helicopter
(x) Been lost (more than once.. do I get brownie points???)
(x) Swam in the ocean
(x) Cried yourself to sleep
(x) Played cops and robbers (cowboys and indians as well, does that count?)
(x) Recently colored with crayons
(x) Sang Karaoke (do NOT tell a soul!)
(x) Paid for a meal with coins only (its what I do when I get bad service, drives them nuts and is perfect payback)
(x) Done something you told yourself you wouldn’t. (*ahem* that x you see, imagine a lot of them)
( ) Made prank phone calls (am in denial about asking someone if their fridge was still working and then when they answered yes telling them that they better run after it before it gets away… sad I know but hey I was only innocent 11)
(x) Laughed until some kind of beverage came out of your nose & elsewhere
(x) Caught a snowflake on your tongue (yipeeeeeeeeeee was last WEEK!!!)
(x) Danced in the rain-naked (no comment)
(x) Written a letter to Santa Claus
(x) Been kissed under the mistletoe
(x) Watched the sunrise with someone
(x) Blown bubbles
(x) Gone ice-skating (and fallen right back down again on my butt… does a whole 5 minutes count?)
(x) Gone to the movies
(x) Shot a gun
(x) Gone on a safari
( ) Been deep sea fishing (the boys are better smelling on land… come now sheesh)
(x) Driven across a country
( ) Been in a hot air balloon (almost almost almost)
( ) Been sky diving
(x) Been hang gliding
(x) Lived in more than one country
(x) Lay down outside at night and admired the stars while listening to the crickets
(x) Seen a falling star and made a wish (its me come now…)
(x) Enjoyed the beauty of Old Faithful Geyser (can an old geyser be beautiful? we have a language communication um problem)
( ) Been on a cruise
(x) Traveled by train
(x) Traveled by motorcycle
(x) Been horse back riding (and fallen off into barb wire fences… )
(x) Been to Disneyland
(x) Been in a rain forest
(x) Seen whales in the ocean
(x) Been to Niagara or Iguassu Falls (Pina Colada’s are better in zee brazilia… )
( ) Ridden on an elephant
(x) Swam with dolphins (does it count if they were 30 meters away???)
( ) Been to the Olympics
( ) Walked on the Great Wall of China
(x) Been water-skiing (not for long…)
(x) Been snow-skiing (just last week in my street… I still don’t seem to have very good balance… )
(x) Been to Westminster Abbey
(x) Been to the Louvre
( ) Been to the Mediterranean
( ) Been to a Major League Baseball game
(x) Been to a National Football game (England vs Holland, I wasn’t popular wearing orange in the red section for some reason )

Fun: Sibling help

A nine-year old boy goes into the grocery store, grabs a box of tampons from the shelf and carries it to the register. The cashier asks, “Oh, these must be for your mom, huh?”

“Nope,” says the boy, “not for my mom.”

The cashier responds, “Well, then they must be for your sister then?”

“Nope,” says the boy, “not for my sister, neither.”

The cashier is now curious, “Oh. Not for your mom and not for your sister — then who are they for?”

The nine-year-old says, “They’re for my little brother. They say on TV, if you wear one of these, you can swim and ride a bike, and my little brother can’t do either of those things.”

… and then the fight started

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My wife sat down on the couch next to me as I was flipping  channels.
She asked, ‘What’s on TV?’

I said, ‘Dust.’
And then the fight started…
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My wife was hinting about what she wanted for our upcoming anniversary.

She said, ‘I want something shiny that goes from 0 to  150 in about 3  seconds.’

I bought her a scale.

And then the fight started…

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When I got home last night, my wife demanded that I take her someplace expensive …

so, I took her to a gas  station.

And then the fight started…

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After retiring, I went to the Social Security office to  apply for Social Security. The woman behind the counter  asked me for my driver’s license to verify my age..

I looked in my  pockets and realized I  had left my wallet at home. I told the woman that I was  very sorry, but  I would have to go home and come back later.

The woman said, ‘Unbutton your shirt’. So I opened  my shirt revealing my curly silver hair. She said,  ‘That silver hair on
your  chest is proof enough for me’ and she processed my  Social Security  application.

When I got home, I excitedly told my wife about my  experience at the  Social Security office.

She said, ‘You should have dropped your pants. You  might have gotten  disability, too.’

And then the fight started…

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My wife and I were sitting at a table at my high school  reunion, and I kept staring at a drunken lady swigging her  drink as she  sat alone at a nearby table.

My wife asked, ‘Do you know her?’

‘Yes,’ I sighed, ‘She’s my old girlfriend.
I understand she took to drinking right after we split up  those many  years ago, and  I hear she hasn’t been sober since.’

My God!’ says my wife, ‘who would think a person  could go on celebrating  that long?’

And then the fight started…

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I took my wife to a restaurant. The waiter, for some  reason, took my  order first.

“I’ll have the strip steak, medium rare,  please.”

He said, “Aren’t you worried about the mad  cow?”"

Nah, she can order for herself.”

And then the fight started…

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A woman is standing nude, looking in the bedroom mirror.
She is not happy with what she sees and says to her  husband,  ‘I feel horrible; I look old, fat and ugly.

I really need you to pay me a compliment.’

The husband replies, ‘Your eyesight’s damn near  perfect.’

And then the fight started…..

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I tried to talk my wife into buying a case of Miller Light  for $14.95.

Instead, she bought a jar of cold cream for $7.95.

I told her the beer would make her look better at night  than the cold  cream.

And then the fight started….

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My wife asked me if a certain dress made her butt look big.

I told her not as much as the dress she wore yesterday

and then the fight started…..

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Saturday morning I got up early, quietly dressed, made my  lunch, grabbed the dog, and slipped quietly into the  garage.

I hooked up the boat up to the truck, and proceeded to back  out into a torrential downpour.

The wind was blowing 50 mph, so I pulled back into the  garage, turned on  the radio, and discovered that the weather would be bad all  day.

I went back into the house, quietly undressed, and slipped  back into bed.

I cuddled up to my wife’s back, now with a different  anticipation, and whispered, ‘The weather out there is  terrible.’

My loving wife of 10 years replied, ‘Can you believe  my stupid husband is out fishing in that?’

And then the fight started …

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I asked my wife, “Where do you want to go for our  anniversary?”

It warmed my heart to see her face melt in sweet  appreciation.

“Somewhere I haven’t been in a long time!”  she said.

So I suggested, “How about the kitchen?”

And that’s when the fight started….

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My wife and I are watching Who Wants To Be A Millionaire  while we were in bed. I turned to her and said, “Do  you want to have  sex?”

No,” she answered.

I then said, “Is that your final answer?”

She didn’t even look at me this time, simply saying   “Yes.”

So I said, “Then I’d like to phone a  friend.”

And that’s when the fight started….

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When our lawn mower broke and wouldn’t run, my wife  kept hinting to me that I should get it fixed. But, somehow  I always had   something else to take care of first: the truck, the car,  e-mail,  fishing,  always something more important to me.

Finally she thought of a clever way to make her point.

When I arrived home one day, I found her seated in the tall  grass, busily snipping away with a tiny pair of sewing  scissors.

I watched silently for a short time and then went into the   House.. I was gone only a few minutes. When I came out again  I handed her  a toothbrush.

‘When you finish cutting the grass,’ I said,  ’you might as well sweep the driveway.’

and then the fight started…

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