Category Archives: USA

Before visiting Pennsylvania, my limited knowledge of the Amish was based on a single viewing of Witness, the movie where Harrison Ford goes into hiding in an Amish community to protect a young murder witness. I knew they dressed in quaint, old-fashioned clothes and used horse-drawn buggies to get around but I assumed they wereContinue reading “Amish tour in Pennsylvania”

As I inched our new home out of El Monte’s hire depot in Orlando, I felt that tingle of expectation that signifies the start of something special. We were about to embark on the quintessential American holiday: an RV trip. We had two weeks to get from Florida to New York a journey that wouldContinue reading “King of the road”

It’s 11pm and I’ve just walked into the foyer of Aria, the 4004-room hotel centrepiece of the new CityCenter development in Las Vegas. Given there are several hundred people milling around, interspersed with a dozen security guards, I automatically presume there’s been a bomb scare or a fire alarm. When I question a nearby staffContinue reading “CityCenter, Las Vegas”

I’ve been recruited to help solve one of Denver’s most notorious crimes. On December 18, 1922, a Federal Reserve Bank delivery truck was being loaded with money outside the Denver Mint when three men pulled up in a black Buick and jumped out, firing sawn-off shotguns. Fifty guards returned fire but the robbers still managedContinue reading “Mile high mystery in Denver”

A walk in the West Village

Reno and Lake Tahoe

Brooklyn Pizza Tour

Mets game in New York

SLS Hotel, Los Angeles

West Hollywood on a budget

Downtown LA’s renaissance

Grammy museum in LA