The nerdfest was often too much for him, so they would while the afternoons away at The Dublin Square, a magnificant Irish watering hole that had good beer, pretty barmaids and an awesome band that played on the saturday night. The band started off as a traditional irish pub band, covering all the great standards, BUT they also did some fantastic covers of Rage Against The Machine, NIN and the Mortal Combat theme song!!
Much jigging was done by The Douglas and The Frase to the delight of the other patrons!
If we were not at The Dublin, then we could be found at the Tiki Bar, where they also had pretty barmaids! From our first night in SD we made friends with Mandoline, the cocktail bartender with killer skills to match her looks!
There we refreshed ourselves on mojito's and key-lime martinis!
SD Score Sheet:
# Find the TOP GUN BAR.= TICK!
(not only did we find it, but we ate the BEST ribs there!)
# Find George Martin at The Hilton= FAIL!
(Sir George was not to be found, despite the information given)
# Win the Rick-shaw gladiatorial race = TICK!
(The Douglas and The Frase proved their superiority when we beat the other competitors in a drunken ride home)
# Find the BEST pizza-by-the-slice place = TICK!
What trip to San Diego would be complete without the traditonal visit to Tijuana?
However, it is also tradition that what happens in Mexico, stays in Mexico so we'll skip straight to the Score Sheet:
TJ Score Sheet:
# Buy Mexican snake leather cowboy boots= TICK!
# Buy mexican wrestling masks = TICK!
(The masks were a big hit on the trolley back to San Diego!)
# Drink lots of great and cheap Mexican beer and dine on cheap and great mexican food= TICK!
# Have another Mexican man-whore story= TICK!
# Make it across the border without spending anytime in a Mexican Prison= TICK!
From SD The Douglas and The Frase drove in a rented convertable Ford Mustang
8 hrs through the desert to Las Vegas.
(see previous entry for more photo's)
Nothing but open road, semi-trailers and tumbleweeds!
We were also fortunate to drive through a rare desert electrical storm! Nothing quite like seeing lightening streak across the endless desert sky!
Landspeed record may/may not have been broken!
2 nights in Vegas in scorching hot temperatures of 40 degress +. Even at night!
The air was so dry that the very moisture was sucked out of your eyeballs!
We sought comfert in the air conditioned hotel room, hotdog diner with sprinklers, casino bars and the amazing cocktail bar we were introduced to at 4am on our last night. It was a shame as we had to get up at 7am the next morning!!
During the day we took the Mustang out to a nearby national park. Red Rock Canyon. The magnificant mountains and endless horizons were the locations for many western films.
Vegas Score Sheet:
# Not to gamble = TICK!
(The house always wins!)
# See a lounge act= TICK!
# Be cowboys = TICK!
# Get Married= FAIL!
(with great shame we left Vegas without completing the objective that was the inspiration for the whole world tour!)
From Vegas we flew to New York via Chicago.
It seems that the people of Chicago had heard what good fun we were and so they conspired to keep us there over night. We soon sorted that out and were on a plane only a few hours later then originally planned.
In New York, we stayed at the home of Christian and Lea in Astoria, Queens.
Just our luck to arrive when NY was experiancing a heat wave. 40 degree highs and humid!
The authorities were advising people to stay indoors!
The mood of the city was a powder keg waiting to happen. Like from Spike Lee's "Do The Right Thing"!
Doug only stayed for a few days but I was there for 10.
NY was a hard nut to crack. Either I just didn't get it, or I got it, and didn't dig it.
From an observer it is a really cool city, but as a participant it was
really harsh!
It may have been the heat. I won't dismiss the city yet and would like to return in a differant season.
There was only one objective for NY
NY Score Sheet:
# Get tattoo: TICK!
(got it done at a place in Greenwhich Village by a Puerto Rican voodoo priest)
Other highlights include:
# discovering the greatest combination of food!
Pizza + Mexican food = Mexican Pizza!
# Natural History Museum.
Christian and I worked out once and for all just which dinosaurs we could take in a fight, and which ones we'd have no hope for.
We also window shopped for simion companions and decided that Spider Monkeys were the only choice for home entertaining duties, while orangutangs would be the ideal to take out in public drinking establishments.
# Partaking in a NY criminal deal in Washington Square
# Central Park on a sunday afternoon.
( Squirrels, breakdancers, disco-rollerbladers, volleyballers, baseballers, jazz-combo buskers, hotdog venders)
# Doing Christians' Ghostbuster tour of New York!
# Statue of Liberty over The Hudsen River
# Drinking at a dive bar called Doc Holidays' in Alphabet City
# Drinking beer on Christians rooftop with the sun setting on the Manhatten skyline.
On the 2nd of August, the Littliest Hobbo left America and landed in London for the next thrilling chapter of the World Tour!
(all photo's by D.Holgate)
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