Try and avoid holds in the USA. They do things differently here.
* Most missed approach holds don't have the hold's inbound track aligned with the arrival track/heading. It's nearly always a reciprocal so you have to do a sector 1 or 2 entry. Buggered if I know why when in most cases aligning the inbound of the hold with the arrival track could be done.
* Similarly many approach holds are also arse about so you have to do a reversal to establish on the approach outbound. Mind you, it's a normal procedure here to extend the hold's outbound leg and then turn to intercept the approach inbound track so that the normal, procedure turn type of approach becomes a sort of base turn from a parallel track type of thing.
* Timing outbound is done to make good the hold timing on the inbound, not outbound leg ie a 1 min hold is 1 min *inbound*. Of course the first lap around is guesswork but you're expected to adjust the outbound timing to make the inbound time work out.
* Hold entry sectors are never charted. You always have to calculate the sectors yourself. Surprised the Pommies haven't adopted the practice - anything to make things unnecessarily more awkward is always welcome there...