Category Archive: USA

New York City’s Must-Visit Toy Store

If you’ve been reading Don’t Ever Look Back for long enough, you’ll know that the two of us are big kids at heart. We love hanging out with animals, we love our candy and chocolates and we absolutely love being silly. So naturally when we visited New York City last [...]

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Getting Soaked At Niagara Falls

A visit to Niagara Falls was never on our original USA itinerary. However when planning our way from Chicago to New York, we discovered that the best way to get to New York State was on the overnight Amtrak train ending in nearby Buffalo. We didn’t need to think twice about [...]

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Gossip Girl Tour of New York City

Before departing on our round-the-world adventure, we both watched a lot of television back home in Australia. While in the USA, TV sucked us in again on a few too many occasions and we even attended a live taping of the Jerry Springer Show. So when we were invited on [...]

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Images from New York City’s Central Park

Our apartment in New York City was located one block from Central Park so naturally we spent a lot of time there, particularly with the temperature occasionally reaching highs in the eighties. We visited Central Park at the start of Autumn/Fall just as the leaves were starting to change and it is [...]

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Highlights of Washington, D.C.

We spent two nights in Washington, D.C. and like most tourists to the area we headed straight for The National Mall, a park at the heart of America’s capital city. The Smithsonian Institute is the primary tenant in The Mall and home to nineteen free museums – enough to keep you [...]

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Getting Corrupted At The Jerry Springer Show

“JER-RY! JER-RY! JER-RY!” If you’ve watched any kind of tabloid television, you’ll know this chant – it’s from The Jerry Springer Show which is currently in its 21st season on the air. While watching late-night TV, The Jerry Springer Show suddenly came on and soon after we heard this message… “For [...]

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Touring the Anheuser-Busch Brewery in St. Louis

Located in the Midwestern city of St. Louis is the Anheuser-Busch Brewery, opened in 1852 and home to a family of beers including Budweiser, Bud Light and Michelob. That might mean nothing to some of you, but the Brewery offers free tours 7 days a week that includes a free [...]

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Views of Chicago: Skydeck Chicago (Willis Tower)

Four of the six tallest buildings in the United States are located in the city of Chicago and the tallest of them all is the famous Willis Tower (formerly Sears Tower), which stands at 1451 feet tall. Within the Willis Tower is The Skydeck, 1353 feet and 103 floors above [...]

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