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After waking at 3:30 am on the 21st and travelling for about 30 hours I finally arrived in New York at 9:30 at night. I didn't have to many problems with the US customs (I didn't really like them taking my finger prints and a scan of my eye but I didn't really have a choice in the matter) however I was pulled aside in LA because I set the metal detector off twice and got a more intermit search from a guy who thought I sounded German. 
I've spent the last two days just walking around the city really because it's too darn expensive to do much else. Attempted to go up the Empire State building today but there was a 90 minute wait so gave it a miss. It is an amazing city though and it's been great fun seeing all the things you see on t.v all the 
time, and there is so many people. We can back to the hostel at 12:30 am a couple nights ago and the subway was packed, it's just amazing how people live here.Head up to Boston tomorrow for a few days before heading down to the Caribbean and the start of the super 8's, which include Ireland and Bangladesh, who would of thought? What more could you ask from a sporting tournament murder, mystery and cricket.
As the name suggests this blog is dedicated to my travels to the cricket world cup in the Caribbean. The journey will begin in just over a weeks time when I'll be catching a plane in good old Chch to New York. I'll be spending a few days there before heading up to Boston and catching a flight down to Antigua when I'm sure the real fun will begin. The Odyssey ends after the final in Barbados at the end of April, and then I'll have to get back to reality.I'll be taking along my camera and taking lots of picture, especially at the beach, so check in often because I'll be putting a few on this page. The planning for the trip is all but complete, thanks mainly to Chicken, and has mostly gone off without a hitch. Which brings me to my first of mostly likely many rants, that being the stupid "special world cup visa" we had to get. It's apparently for security purposes, but the way I see it it's just a way for them to get US$100 out of everybody. I had to send my passport over to Sydney (because they didn't have an office in NZ), which was kind of worrying because if it got lost I would be pretty much screwed, and then I had to wait at least a month before it would come back. Luckily I didn't require my passport during that time. We weren't even told that this special visa was required until the end of December, so the whole thing was a bit of a balls up really. It's all sorted now though so nothing more to worry about, except maybe getting through U.S customs.
I've spent the last two days just walking around the city really because it's too darn expensive to do much else. Attempted to go up the Empire State building today but there was a 90 minute wait so gave it a miss. It is an amazing city though and it's been great fun seeing all the things you see on t.v all the 
time, and there is so many people. We can back to the hostel at 12:30 am a couple nights ago and the subway was packed, it's just amazing how people live here.