I went to the USA and made it back without getting shot, so I can call that a success! ;)
Also made it back about a stone heavier after all the yummy food on offer! XD (After the Maple Syrup in Canada, chocolate and waffles in Belgium and well -all the food- in NYC I am happy but much rounder after this month ;))
So the low down on what I got up to:
I stayed with friends in a (suspiciously) cheap apartment, where this was a ridiculously huge creepy cellar where we found our own mummified rat (Barry the Basement Keeper)
It was the kind of place you could imagine being broken into, so I hid my passport, so well in fact, that I almost didn't