Howdeeee from Cowboy Country.....! Since I last got in touch I have have been to some amazing places in the states and have had some equally thrilling adventures! After leaving Toronto on the gloomy greyhound bus to Chicago I settled there for 3 days. Chicago is probably the most underrated city I have been to so far and is full of beautiful architecture, jazz and blues clubs, excellent parks and beaches, theatres and lots of Mob history ,much more than I ever imagined. I went to the top of the sears tower and enjoyed the immense views from the tallest skyscraper in North America. Everyone was extremely friendly and I had some great nights out and tried one of the famous Chicago deep dish pizzas which are exactly that and even if you have a tiny one you are stuggling to finish it as is so deep but very good for a hangover cure! I shared my hostel room with a few shady characters, a Ukranian Prostitute who used to walk about with a long coat on and nothing underneath, an obese slob who didnt get out of bed for two days and ate all her meals from her pit...someone get me outta here!!! After I checked out of there I headed for New Orelans which was great fun! The hostel I stayed at was possibly the worst I have stayed at yet. Well I suppose you get what you pay for and 15 dollars a night got me bitten to hell by mosquitos, rats, bed bug infested matress and thats just for starters! However I met a cool bunch and we had many a night on the town, and New Orleans is a town that NEVER sleeps, its a party all day everyday and has the most relaxed laws on alcohol in the whole of the USA. I saw some amazing blues bands while I was there, they were incredible! Most of the houses are built French colonial style which I really liked. The nightlife is based in the famous French Quarter (Bourbon Street). The food is pretty good too, all Creole based dishes, Po Boys (fried fish/chicken sandwiches) all laden with calories! After three days of hot and sticky weather in New Orelans It was time to head to Dallas for a day. I was meant to make the journey on the trusty Greyhound bus that evening at 7pm when I met 2 guys in reception who overheard me on the phone to a B&B in Dallas and asked how I was getting there, when I told them my glamourous form of transportation they said they had a limo out front that they had to drive all the way to Oklahomla which is 4 hours further than Dallas so they could drop me off (should take 6 hours to Dallas they assured me). I ummed and aaahed for a while as I was a slight bit apprehensive about getting in a white stretch limo with two American guys but they seemed harmless enough so I went along. Turns out both of the guys attend Oklaholma university and one of them is the student president and decided to buy a limosine off ebay and do it all up in their uni's colours and give it away to a charity..hmmm so how far will this baby get us I wondered! I am stretched out in the back thanking my lucky stars that i dont have to get a Greyhound and have a whole limo to myself. Fifteen minutes out of New orelans Jo (really funny guy)comments that the oil is running low so we go to find a place to change the oil and that takes four hours as believe it or not there are not that many places that can change the oil in a limo, it is a rather large vehicle!. Sooo after the oil is changed we head back onto the highway with our hopes on a better run this time. I had a bad feeling about the car as it was making funny gurgling noises and it felt like it was going to fall apart! Then all of a sudden doing about 100 down the highway and there is this deafening noise from the rear left of the car, we pull over on the highway to inspect and the back wheel has burst...well what do you expect from a 2000 dollar 1988 limosine..!.We call for help and it takes 2 hours for us to get towed, we are stuck for 2 hours waiting by a swamp in the most dangerous spot to break down as a passing police car informed us. We all saw the funny side to it and the guys ended up being a brilliant laugh. We had to get 4 new wheels on the limo at almost midnight by some redneck who flogged us second hand wheels but we managed to get the beat up crock back on the road!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! After 7 hours to Dallas and the Greyhound bus overtaking us, I decided to go back to Oklaholma with the guys as they stay in a fraternity at the uni campus and as its summer break there are only 6 guys in a house of 80 I thought sod it why not go the whole hog and see if this thing makes it to Oklaholma!.... The end result is that I am staying at a uni campus in a small town called Stillwater population of 26,000 and that doubles in student season. There are some good bars here, los of young people and the frat house is like luxury, a cinema in the basement, free use of internet , the uni is out of this world it has its own basketball stadium, baseball stadium and is in lovley grounds. Last night I stayed at a friends parents ranch and we had so much fun 4 wheeling on their land, chasing the cows the ranch was like something out of Dallas for all of you 80's children who remember JR and Cristal!! Tomorrow we hope to go horseriding with my friends parents as they own about 8 horses then we are invited to play croquet with the president of the university which should be fun! It has been a brilliant couple of weeks and although I took a slight chance by getting in a banged out limo with two guys I have not looked back once! On Fri we are all going to do a last journey in the limo to Dallas and load the limo with loads of booze and then I leave on saturday to Mexico City. Lets hope we have no problems this time! I am spending about 3 days in Mexico City as its the most dangerous city in the world and I dont really want to hang about for too long. I intend to see the pyramids and ruins and get the hell out! I then fly to Miami and that is my last destination in the US before going to South America!I am meeting some friends in Miami and can't wait to get there. iIwill be there for 4th of July which is meant to be pure carnage, fireworks, parties on the beach etc! Well thats it for now, will be in touch again soon when I have some more mad cap adentures to report! saddle up and get yer gun.. By the way they sell guns of every shape and size in Walmart which is meant to be a family store....shocking hey but only in America.. Cazza X