Well we are now in Miami and have half an hour before we have to check out of the hotel and check onto the cruise ship to make our way home. We don't want it to end but are looking forward to being home...if that's not too much of a contradiction! a few nights ago we took the mammoth 27 hour train journey from New York and it was surprisingly ok. The seats on Amtrak are huge and there is even enough legroom for Ian. To help you sleep they give you a pillow and t...

I am afraid that our camera has decided to give up working and refuses to cooperate with any computers to upload photos. So I afraid that you will have to be content with just words until we are home and can figure out the problem. (Too many photos on the card me thinks!). Hope you enjoy the blogs anyway :o)

We've just got back to the hostel after trekking round Miami for the day, which was better than Suzy and I had expected. To start with we wandered down the endless North Beach right on the east coast and then we took a bus into town where we noticed that everything is much bigger. Big cars (humvees look small here), big buildings, big boats and the people are either big or tiny. Strangely the cars have no number plates on the front and the post vans look really ...

We've finally arrived in Miami and are sitting in our hostel after suffering the terrible pain of US immigration which lasted for 3 hours altogether. We were so bored that we developed 7 theories why it was so chaotic. 1. Middle Eastern terrorists have weaker legs than the rest of us so they stand you in line for over an hour to see who falls over. 2. To create jobs for 5 people where one clear sign saying "U.S. < > NON U.S." would have sufficed...