Hope you weren't on an overbooked United flight.

Fiona would just give them one of her high kicks

Hilarious pic.

That's how my mom would sleep in the car on road trips. Head back, mouth open.

The amount of bbq you guys ate on this trip you should open a bbq shack back in nz. Is there American style bbq in nz?

Safe travels back.

Be good to have tech support back! Safe travels.

You guys should have your own show on the travel travel.

Smalltown USA with 3 kiwis? Pinball and margaritas with Fiona and Dave? Abandoned buildings around the world with rotor Dave?

Throw me a executive producer credit if it happens

Great seeing y'all again - thanks for the Pincade koozie too - still my goal to make it down there in 2018 for that! cheers!

Safe travels... the rumbling in your stomachs might not be turbulence.

Glad to have hooked back up with you guys in Texas after 3 years. Take care!

I used to love Whataburger back in the 70's.They had one in Vegas.Was it good?

Hope you're not flying United

http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2017/04/10/united-airlines-smash-guitar-face/

lmao...THAT'S AN UNFORTUNATE PACKAGE CHOICE

Awesome axe!

Safe travels home! It was good meeting you Dave, Fiona, and Danni. I was in Hawaii all last week and just caught up on the thread. I understand being disappointed by the PAPA results, but I think they're impressive!

Great thread. Best IMHO. Thank you. I hope you got a chance to eat a Chicken Fried Steak with garlic mashed potatoes and gravy when you were in Texas. If not, next time. You have a great family and you are a great dad. More power to you and yours!!! Safe travels home!!!! There's no place like home......

Safe travels RD and fam.

Always fun to follow along with the Travel Odysseys, too bad you were away on PAPA Sunday so I didn't get to meet you, but it was certainly cool to get to meet Danni and Fiona.

Seems like you guys have pretty much worn out the ol' USA. I'm just waiting for the inevidible next chapter, Rotordave's Space Odyssey

Or perhaps it'd be more of a Space Oddity...

Hey y'all,

Thank you for following our trip once again. It has been fun to provide you with a few hours of entertainment to fill in your day.

Thank you to the people who have been reading and interacting with us, both in the thread and irl.

Thank you to the tournament people who run and play in tournaments.

Thank you to Spooky Pinball and MezelMods for sponsoring me even though I didn't really do much Pinside work for y'all as such but thank you regardless. Everyone should buy a Spooky machine and get mods from Mezel because they are fun and fantastic and wonderful people. Plus both of the companies have adorable dogs. That makes them even better.

Thank you to my school for letting me do this and only 1/2 judging me negatively. Thanks to the teachers who encourage me (haha my maths teacher really tbh is kind of the only super excited one but ya know 5/7 of them think it's good), and letting me have weird schedules for work. I will catch up in the holidays on stuff I haven't done. (Haha >_<

I'm probably forgetting stuff but I gotta fly so haha gotta make it quick.

Thank you to my friends who have supported me and my hobby. Especially Joshua and Jeffrey. Y'all made PAPA one of the coolest things of my life and prevented me from being upset about my crappy tournament hahaha.

Most of all thank you to my mum for carrying my bags and dad for making this trip possible. It means a lot and I'm grateful that I am able to travel around the world with you guys and not just be left at home. I feel so lucky although I never express that to you. I love you mum and dad. Thank you for loving and supporting me for all these years. I really love you.

Danni.

I am assigning you to write a report chronicling your trip and the history and culture that you learned all along the way.

Her teachers can just become Pinsiders and read the thread.

Danni, you two were hanging out all the time - new BFFs?

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Ha, we have known each other for a few years now. Here is a super cringe photo from when we first met back when I went to my first IFPA World Champs...

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So not 'new' BFF, but definitely a BFF regardless...

Well, I found this new odyssey yesterday (ohhh what a miss, much to late) and read all 12 pages in once .

Thank you again for your delicious food pictures (make me always hungry), the whole story about your travel and hints for all locations.

Look forward to every new journey. Love your style.

Cheers Roland

Nice shirts!

When we did a 6 week trip to the US and Cuba in 2015, our 8 year old niece who came with us., had to keep a travel diary and give a report to her school class when she got back. Probably learnt more than in 6 weeks of primary school

Fair enough...but let's see a pic of your pin-haul from this US road trip!!..great read on here btw! You could have a YouTube channel & do video blogs! Metal shows and pins?! Sounds guuud to me! Haha..cheers

Is there a soft toy room for her like you have a room for your pins?

Yes actually, there might be a picture where you can see it somewhere in this thread, I don't quite remember but I know I've seen a picture somewhere before.

It looks... intimidating

This is a child raised right !

Uh... well Fiona might have been raised right... but she's the high-kicker, not the tourney girl