Travels in a Tin Can

Travels in a Tin Can By David Thomas Uncut and unpublished edition 2007 Copyright David Thomas 2005 ...

Contents New York, New York Harvey the R. V. A bit 'Blair Witch' and too many hicks Wherever I lay my hat... Frisco Rain or shi ...

Prologue In September 2003 my wife (then fiancée) Emma emerged after an eight-year sentence. The crime? Choosing to be a Clinica ...

as an easy place to cut our travellers’ teeth. Although as it turned out we understood the language and culture only about 50% o ...

because our transport was also our home, a Recreational Vehicle (RV) (a motor home). We named this our ‘Tin Can’, because we wer ...

1. New York, New York. Our adventure began in an airport, as most adventures do in this modern age where crossing the Atlantic O ...

revealing their contents to us by saying things like: ‘Oh look, a hand-knitted jumper, how lovely!’ Once we had repacked the bag ...

Beverley Hillbillies". Perhaps the airline was preparing us for American television? In which case I was extremely glad that our ...

security staff that were conducting these additional interviews were armed with large pistols. This was not the America I rememb ...

At this my interviewer’s demeanour changed entirely: 'fine, we don’t care about your debt problems. Have a nice day!' Fortunatel ...

By the time we had unpacked it was about 6pm - which felt like 11pm to us due to the time difference from the UK - and all we wa ...

broccoli florets and served on paper plates. To complete the picture? The pizza was served wrapped in tin foil, such finesse! Ar ...

on the river the temperature plummeted further. Luckily the boat had a large cabin from which we could admire the views whilst r ...

fences. Sadly, but not surprisingly, there were also a number of "entrepreneurs" cashing in on the disaster by selling photograp ...

In stark contrast to the rudeness that we encountered from service providers, the 'average Joe' on the streets of New York was v ...

(!) and our immersion in the 'real' New York nearly became too real as a man started following us. We began walking faster and f ...

our way back to the cinema we were about to cross a busy road when we were stopped in our tracks, not by a red 'Do Not Walk' sig ...

'I'm a Texan, we know about removing boots'. And then laughing as Emma nearly fell over whilst trying to follow his guidance. On ...

2. Harvey the RV On the day that we flew from the East Coast of the USA to the West Coast, we spent the night in a hotel close t ...

Sadly we did not get to meet Arnie and instead completed the details and picked up the van with another agent – Fred ‘Zak’ Isaac ...