Here's Craig at the top of the Rock. Danni - I missed your question: why did we choose these US cities to visit? I used to be a French and Russian teacher and spent many, many holidays in France and a couple in Russia really to keep my languages up to date. I've also visited most countries in Europe as well as Chile (where we have family) and southern Africa but I've only ever visited Kentucky, Georgia and Tennessee in the South of the USA. Craig has only been ...

Hi, All - Jean here - again, cos Craig is still in his room drying off! We decided to do the uptown trip this afternoon on an open-top bus. It was a wee bit overcast to start with and halfway through, the skies opened and we got torrential rain + thunder + lightning! Luckily, when we got off the bus, we got a yellow cab back to the hotel but it'll be amazing if the clothes we had on today are dry for tomorrow's flight to London! A few comments for the Ochiltree ...

Jean here! Up at 4am yesterday to get our car to LAX. Managed to get decent seats and dozed our way to NY. It was all going too well: before we even left the airport, we got caught up in a security alert and had to stand around for a l-o-n-g time till the police and TSA (who are they, Ochiltree?) decided it was safe to let us go. Then a slow car trip into the city - accidents partly blocked 2 of the roads - and then the shock of Times Square: lights, car horns, t...