America
2000
These are the photos taken from the
month long tour of America in September 2000.
The trip was based around being in San Francisco
for the Folsom Street Fair. I travelled with Daniel who was my
flatmate
in St Kilda at the time.
The tour started in New York
(after 21 hours of flying) and took us to Boston, Provincetown (on Cape
Cod), then to
San Francisco before ending up in Los Angeles. The following photos
were the first photos taken on my new digital
camera so I don't think I had the ability to take 'good' photos at the time.
New York
New York
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This is not really the Qantas plane we flew on. But it was the same size as the one we had. Melbourne Airport. |
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Daniel getting excited (or about to fall asleep) as we waited for boarding. Maybe he'd already had his first tammy? |
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Ooh... this is the hostel we stayed at in the 1st week in New York. It was a sweat box! We didn't stay there again. |
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MTV at Times Square. Did you see me waving? |
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Daniel pretending to be lost. I was only one tempted to mug him. |
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Taken in Central Park. Is that a mosquito on his neck? |
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Andy Pandy! What good timing that brings 2 Wollongong boys together in the Big Apple! |
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I can't believe I've forgotten the name of the train station. Let's just call it Central Station. |
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Is that..... Bjork ?
Thump!!
Oh... I guess it was... |
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The Guggenheim.
I just want to buy some art ! |
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Daniel in a post Guggenheim bliss. |
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Da boys outside the Guggenheim. |
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Mmmm... time for some comfort food. |
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Oh my god! Is it really her ?? |
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Okay... I know longer own these jeans. I gave them to someone half my age. |
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Exactly one year before they disappeared. |
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I don't know what this march was all about. I think an election was coming up. |
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Boston and Provincetown
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Woo Hoo! We're off to Boston on the Amtrak. |
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Resting up at Margarita's lair. I actually don't remember her name but this place full of VERY old people spooked me. |
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Admiring Margarita's interior design. |
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Where's the fire? Downtown Boston. |
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Kinkos sucking those American dollars out of us. |
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Another old building. Okay I should know better. |
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Anthony's Townhouse where we stayed in Boston. |
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Someone looks happy this morning. How's that breakfast Campari going down? |
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Bye Bye Boston. We're on our way to P-town! |
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Boy David. A herion addicted male prostitute I met on the boat. Hey.... those are Daniel's words... not mine! |
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This is the guesthouse we stayed at. |
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Taking advantage of the sun on the 'clothing optional' sundeck. |
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Our guesthouse house boy. More towels! |
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Someone's been smoking the peace pipe.... |
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Back to New York and Hotel
17
Hotel 17 is famous for all the stars
who have stayed there and some films that have been made there. In fact
we even made a film there. I think it was called "Who's
that in Daniel's bed?"
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Back in New York. The San something festival. Daniel will kill me if I can't come up with the right name for this Italian drunken feast. |
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This is the same layout as the loft... spooky? |
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The San Genaro Festival.. I knew I;d get it if I thought about it some more. What time does the show start? |
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I was pretty impressed that H&M decided to have only one store in all of America in New York. Until recently when I found one in a suburban shopping centre in Quincy, Mass. |
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Time to leave Hotel 17. I definitely have to visit the East Village again sometime. |
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Daniel in an East Village coffee shop. |
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Hey... I thought a haircut in Chelsea would make me look cool. What happened?? |
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Hotel 17..... many memories... |
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San
Francisco and the Folsom Street Fair
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Getting an early night in San Francisco. Folsom Street Fair tomorrow! |
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Folsom Street Fair. Why is Daniel grinning? |
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Wrestle Mania on Folsom Street |
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Why were so many people getting whipped? |
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Corner of Castro and Market Streets |
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Waiting for a tram to go downtown in SF |
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Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco |
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Mmm... comfort food (again) |
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Looking down to SF from Haight Ashbury |
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This is Daniel just minutes after learning that he would spend the next night at the Playboy Mansion in LA |
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Los Angeles with Todd at the Holloway Motel |
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Touring LA. First stop... the toilet where George Michael was busted loitering. |
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The writing's on the wall for George. |
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I love what you've done with the garden Todd. |
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Who is Daniel talking to? It's time to get our plane back to Melbourne. |
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Home Sweet Home.... St Kilda |
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The air is so clean here. |
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Did you really just look at all of those photos??
Click here to see if I'm still about.
