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bugshaw at 08:48am on 18/04/2009
bugshaw at 08:48am on 18/04/2009I didn't write a journal on my trip to the US in 1991; a few postcards that will have gone the way of ephemera, a couple of dozen photographs, and some memories is what I have left. Until I found an old notebook with a painstaking listing of everything I spent :-) That brought back a few more memories.
* Melbourne Youth Hostel, Denver CO, $8.64/night. It was a Sunday evening, Denver appeared to be closed.
* Museum of Holography ($2.50) which I had entirely forgotten about.
* "piece of cardboard ($3)" - I suspect this was something to do with Rocky Horror, which I note I bought tickets for that night.
* Museum of Science and Industry ($5) where I bought Space Fries ($1.62). It was over 100° in Chicago, the Museum had air conditioning so I stayed all day. Two days later I had "horrid pizza ($13)"
* for posterity (and accounting) I dutifully noted my purchase of "avocado (99¢)" and "lemon drink ($1)". That was a nice avocado. I seem to have developed a bit of a Real Lemonade habit out there, British lemonade is more like 7Up.
* Ah, New Orleans, where I had a strawberry daquiri ($4) and a flying grasshopper ($5). I remembered to tip ($1). It was a baking hot day, I sat by the river and drank cocktails, then went to a park and read a book. Gabriel, by Lisa Tuttle ($2.99), which IIRC was set there. Only 80¢ to ride the streetcar!
* Sat July 20: juice (60¢), more juice ($1.94), food ($5.42), food ($1.30), onion (10¢). because you have to count everything. I think the juice craziness was my first delicious exposure to V8.
NY - Niagara Falls - Chicago - Venice Beach CA - Denver - Houston - New Orleans - Orlando - Miami Beach
but I never did get down into Baja California for the solar eclipse.
* Melbourne Youth Hostel, Denver CO, $8.64/night. It was a Sunday evening, Denver appeared to be closed.
* Museum of Holography ($2.50) which I had entirely forgotten about.
* "piece of cardboard ($3)" - I suspect this was something to do with Rocky Horror, which I note I bought tickets for that night.
* Museum of Science and Industry ($5) where I bought Space Fries ($1.62). It was over 100° in Chicago, the Museum had air conditioning so I stayed all day. Two days later I had "horrid pizza ($13)"
* for posterity (and accounting) I dutifully noted my purchase of "avocado (99¢)" and "lemon drink ($1)". That was a nice avocado. I seem to have developed a bit of a Real Lemonade habit out there, British lemonade is more like 7Up.
* Ah, New Orleans, where I had a strawberry daquiri ($4) and a flying grasshopper ($5). I remembered to tip ($1). It was a baking hot day, I sat by the river and drank cocktails, then went to a park and read a book. Gabriel, by Lisa Tuttle ($2.99), which IIRC was set there. Only 80¢ to ride the streetcar!
* Sat July 20: juice (60¢), more juice ($1.94), food ($5.42), food ($1.30), onion (10¢). because you have to count everything. I think the juice craziness was my first delicious exposure to V8.
NY - Niagara Falls - Chicago - Venice Beach CA - Denver - Houston - New Orleans - Orlando - Miami Beach
but I never did get down into Baja California for the solar eclipse.
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