Vancouver, British Columbia Martina: …Bitch. Fortunately mine and Catherine’s respective charms united in one beautiful moment, and enabled us to make our connection and return to Canada. Once in Vancouver I was relieved to discover that at our absurdly cheap $9 a night accommodation (booked by Catherine as a recompenser to our Seattle sponger) was [...]

Seattle, Washington Catherine: We then had a 24hr train journey to Seattle which was beautiful, and made very memorable by a young man called Clayton Malloy Letson who was spaced out on something trippy. Martina: After a very earnest man approached him to enquire about his instrument (who subsequently pranced off only to return with [...]

Los Angeles, California Catherine: Next up was LA. I’d been warned that I might not like it because it’s a massive, dirty, sprawling hole, but I actually quite enjoyed it. Martina: We stayed in Hollywood, where on the first night we headed to the Hollywood Walk of Fame (after having a Maccy D’s, of course), [...]

Fort Worth, Texas Catherine: Back on the Texas Eagle, we headed south into Texas itself. My, oh my, the state is huge, and the train is slow. It takes ages to get anywhere. We were staying in Fort Worth in a motel on the outside of the city (our second very dodgy motel – we [...]

Chicago, Illinois Martina: We only had a six-hour stop off in Chicago, so we took advantage of the modern age by phoning Papa Booth to see if he could use his own world-wide-web prowess to locate us the nearest internet café in the Windy City. Catherine: Yes, the café he scored us was substantially out [...]

New York City, New York Martina: I woke up in our Niagara Falls bedroom with a really weird, itchy rash all over my body. Uh-oh. We left for NY, where we landed around midnight, spending the next four nights at the Candy Hostel. The next day, I paid through the nose for a doctor to [...]

In the spirit of those intrepid travellers who have gone before them, Catherine Bolsover and Martina Booth brave suspicious immigration officers, over-zealous New York nurses and dodgy Texans to discover just where North America’s at in 2007, starting their trip in Toronto, Canada. Toronto, Ontario Martina: Well – the trip got off to a worrying [...]