New York City, USA.

The city sparkles with the promise of commerce and industry.

The city.

A hundred thousand million pounds of concrete and steel.

A place where you're so important that you don't even matter.

Screw Las Vegas. This is the real casino of life.

Everyone's a winner.

Toronto, Canada.

There are good weekends... and there are great weekends.

San Antonio, USA.

'Remember the Alamo'.


It's the slogan for the whole region.


It's quite easy to remember. It's right there smack dab in the middle of town.


I wonder what people will remember about our lives hundreds of years from now.


'Remember Tupac' is in a totally different catagory. Right?

San Antonio, USA.

The first thing you notice in Texas is the sky.

The wide open spaces are the catalyst for brilliant observation.

Chicago, USA.

You don't need a license to be crazy.

I should have recognized the instant I got into the cab.

45 minutes of highway from O'Hare to home.

Oh the things we learn.

Really? The apocolypse is coming next week? Awesome.

Houston, USA.

The phrase "Ice Storm" conjures up images of natural disaster, industrial chaos and crystalized roads.

Of course, in Texas whenever it drops below 60 degrees... they call it an "ice storm".

The papers tell stories about how the town is crippled.

Death and destruction.

Mayhem.

The storm of the century.

Meanwhile, it's merely kind of cloudy outside. You have to wear a light jacket.

It's uncomfortable BarBQ weather.

Dallas, USA.

They promise a wonderful assortment of dining options.

They deliver no less than 20 Texan barbeque joints.

It is impossible to even think of a salad.

And then you have these icons that I do not understand.

What do they say?

No hot dogs?

No 1970s automobiles?

Los Angeles, USA.

Consider this.

The price of ice cream should fluctuate like the price of gasoline based entirely on supply and demand.

Las Vegas, USA.

There's no better way to reset your moral compass than by finding yourself at the annual Adult Video convention in Las Vegas.

Uh huh.

The pornography "convention".

Most industries have some sort of annual meeting where they can discuss future trends in business and the current state of the marketplace.

I still have no idea what they could possibly have been discussing at the porn convention.

"I think that we should do more doggystyle this year"

"No! I wholeheartedly disagree, that's so 2004. This is clearly the year of missionairy"

"While I respect your opinion, it is clear that we must adapt to our customers!"

"I propose a 50/50 split"

"Agreed!"

It is truly a strange world.

Las Vegas, USA.

There are these atrocious TV dinners made by the brand "Hungry Man" that graciously offer over 1 pound of grizzlely cholesterol and saturated fat that promise to completely satisfy one's hunger.

Las Vegas is a Hungry Man TV dinner.

Questionable nutritional value, pre-packaged fluff. Over one pound of food. Deep fried, frozen and reheatable. Served 24 hours a day.

This is a town that spends millions of hours telling the world how great, wonderful and painfully cool it is. It screams like the Hungry Man that it is. It wants you to consume mass quantities. It wants you to overindulge.

There are no surprises in Vegas. You know exactly what you're going to get.

Las Vegas is not a well balanced meal.

Chicago, USA.

There is no place in America more spectacular than Chicago.

A wall of steel and glass pressed against the inland sea.

Life. 100 stories at a time.

The plane banks in from the east.

As many pictures as time will allow.

Washington DC, USA.

A land of bureaucratic lunacy.

Ok, so let me get this straight.... if you smoke on the elevator, you get a $25 fine? Twenty Five dollars? I think that's the cost of like two packs of cigarettes.

That's not a deterrent... That's a challenge.

Chicago, USA.

We all claim to be smart and civilized people.

Nonetheless, we all celebrate the arrival of a random date on the Pagan calander.

We dress up in moderately fancy clothing.

We overpay for overfun.