by phoenix | Nov 14, 2007 | Uncategorized
One thing about New York that is instantly evident in comparison to the mid-western towns we’ve been passing through is the quality of the food, although we did have one excellent example of unusually good road food in a little town called Le Claire on the...
by phoenix | Nov 13, 2007 | Uncategorized
I didn’t write earlier about the weirdness of seeing Chanukah things in the shops here. (Hmmm. I said I was going to run this journal with a Chicago Manual of Style until I got back from the US but I don’t have it with me. For now I’m...
by phoenix | Nov 13, 2007 | Uncategorized
As we’ve driven across the vast mid-west of America, I find myself thinking about politics and the widespread lack of American awareness of the outside world. There seem to be a couple of reasons that leap out immediately: with the exception of...
by phoenix | Nov 10, 2007 | Uncategorized
In a parallel world, where I was still with hawk_eye, or if I were a world traveler like merovingian, I would have more details for you of the self who split off from me as we made the decision to go down I‑90 to Rapid City instead of 385...
by phoenix | Nov 8, 2007 | Uncategorized
Spent today in Yellowstone National Park. Mostly it was closed – we missed it by a couple of days, as it closed for the season November 5. Apologies to all in Seattle we failed to see (especially bevsob: I was really hoping to say bye before we left...
