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Fordy On Tour
Hello all, this is my first update of the travelling world! I'm sure you're all missing me already and there's still a while to go!
If you get bored reading then stop and don't complain to me!!
Starting off by travelling for 16hours in total to my hotel in New York! There was a funny start with the shuttle bus driver almost starting a fight with 2 blokes over a disagreement on where he thought they would get dropped off! I thought it was funny anyway.
My trek america group was run by Tara, she was good fun with her american antics! I shared my tent with an english bloke called Martyn, he was alright but a bit of a nonse! I spent most of my time with Adam and Joel who were english brothers, we spent most of our time together, they were both great laughs! Had a german lady called Kirsten, 2 Korean girls; You Young and Geon Ha, who thought i looked like a better looking version of Ricky Martin, how i laughed!! They called me the walking jukebox cos i was always singing! Also 2 korean lads called Sung and Dongwhan. Dongwhan was hilarious even though he didn't know it, although we spent most of the time laughing at him!
Went to Washington, was coming home and one of the tires blew up, had to pull over to change it. wasn't a routine change though, some homeless bloke wanted to help and wouldn't take no for an answer cos he blatently wanted money. He tried changing but didn't get to finish as 4 policemen turned up in their cars with flashing lights and sirens. They all worked together, it was such a scene watching them change it!
Went white water rafting which was great fun, i'll update some pics if Tara sends me them, she had a waterproof digital camera. At one point i got to sit on the front of the boat and ride it like a bull holding onto a rope with one hand going down the rapids! I ended up falling back into the boat!
Visited the Jack Daniels distillery and had a tour with a guy called Ron, he had the best moustache ever!!
Saw alot of the effects of Hurricane Katrina on way to New Orleans, houses and buildings now in a pile of mess. We did a swamp tour and got close to some alligators while they were being fed infront of our boat. Got really drunk in New Orleans and on the way home our tour leader Tara threw Joel into a dustbin, it was hilarious and his t-shirt got drenched in sewage!!
Saw the Mississippi river and had the most boring part of the tour when we did a ghost tour, it was basically following some fat gothic woman round the streets while she bored us with stories.
Saw a bit of traditional jazz too!
We crossed the border to Mexico to Acuna for the night, got really drunk off coronas for 60p each and tequila for about a pound.......result!!
Got to see an American drive through movie, sat on the roof of the van to see You Me and Dupree starring Owen Wilson.
Alien time next as we went to Roswell to see the UFO museum and reseach centre
Stayed at a cowboy camp for a night and went on a horse ride to see the sights. It was a one off, i was in a whole world of pain afterwards so never doing it again!! Saw the sunset which was pretty cool while riding though. i even bought a cowboy hat to look the part for a laugh!
We woke up at 4am to see the sunrise, me and Joel climbed up high so that we had the best view of it all.
The Grand Canyon was an amazing site. Managed to see lots of it, first of all from doing a 9 mile trek through the canyon, 4.5miles down it the 4.5 miles back to the top again, needless to say i almost died doing the climb back up! Also did a helicopter ride which was ace, was a bit like a rollercoater too cos the pilot kept on doing twists and sudden dives!
In Lake Powell we stayed at a campsite with 2 other groups, we bombarded 1 group that we already knew with waterbombs when they came back from a trip, they weren't impressed but they had the last laugh when they stole a couple of them and threw them at martyn which made him lose one of his contact lenses!!
In the evening our group did a fancy dress party, i hadn't shaved in a while so i looked like a bit of a mess so i went as a hobo! we all bought our clothes from a second hand store, bought a hat, t-shirt shorts and even a brown paper bag to drink from. also carried a cup around asking for loose change like a real tramp, ended up making $1.51, everyone called me Herb the Hobo!
Did a 5mile trek in Zion National Park, was easy compared to the grand canyon. Me Adam and Joel were happy staying there for the night as per our schedule but everyone else wanted to go to vegas for an extra night that they paid for us 3 to have the extra night stay in vegas......winner!
Vegas is such a completly different place than anywhere else in the world it's got everything! We got really drunk, gambled, did a limo ride.......standard vegas really! The limo we were in fit all 20 of us in, looked like a plane without wings. Adam was going to get married but it was too complicated to get married and then have a divorce straight afterwards! Me and Tara did some shooting practice with live ammo. Was great fun shooting a terrorist target with a gun! I managed to him him 47 times and tara hit 34 out of the 50 shots.
Disneyland was good fun.......went to the wrong park by accident! why they have 2 amusment parks next to each other and have disney as their name i'll never know! we eventually blagged our way into the real park though so worked out well in the end!
LA was pretty average, good beaches but that's about it....!
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