American Anachronisms

IMG 0670

This is the site of the original Boston Tea Party.

Some interesting points that we have discovered are:

No one in Boston has ever heard of a ‘Boston Bun’.

When I want to go to the toilet, I can go to the Washroom, Bathroom or Rest Room. The washroom does have somewhere to wash, but the bathroom does not have bath. There is nowhere to rest in the rest room!

In the USA, you can drive on a Parkway and can park on a Driveway!

The elevator will take you up a number of floors, and it also elevates you down some as well.

Bruce

Bruce is a keen traveller and photographer. This web site describes his travel and family interests

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

USA

We Are Finally Home Again

We finally arrived home from our ill-fated trip to the USA at around noon yesterday. Our five hour-flight from Dulles, Washington, departed at 5.00 pm on Sunday and connected with the fifteen-hour Qantas flight out of Los Angeles at 10.50 pm . That flight was a little over an hour late in leaving but arrived […]

Read More
USA

We are Starting our Journey Back Home.

Our good news is that we now have confirmed flights out of Dulles Airport in Washington on Sunday evening (November 17). We will have a six hour flight on Alaska Airlines to Los Angeles and then a sixteen hour flight from there to Melbourne. Thank heavens for business class! Yesterday, we drove a short part […]

Read More
USA

We Are Ready to Move On From Sylva

Over the  last couple of days we have been making plans to leave Sylva and begin our way back to home. I’ll leave here with some very mixed emotions. On one hand, I’ll be glad to get out of this little town and head home. On the other hand, I’m feeling sad about leaving behind […]

Read More