Hi Y'All

Just getting in the spirit for what I believe is my first blog update from the US of A - live (well almost live as I am pretty much just running on adrenaline now) from Key West, one of the tackiest places I have ever been in my life. It is the kind of place where more than one store has t-shirts in the window saying things like 'f*** you you f***-ing f***-er' but without the stars and one with a Harley Davidson logo and the following written on the back - 'if you can read this, the bitch fell off'. but without the punctuation. It is gay pride weekend so the place is hopping. Lots of people out and about. It is really quite fun.

Can you believe that at the age of thirty-mumble-mumble-mumble, this is my first holiday in the US. Well, sort of. If you don't count my transit through the airport in New Jersey on the way to other places, this is actually only my 4th trip to the US ever - and two of those trips were at the start and end of the same family vacation in 1985. The third was last year for work and I literally saw the office, hotel and a shopping mall!

Anyway, hopefully tomorrow will bring dolphins and manatees. I will keep you posted.