July 15th – Clarksdale, Mississippi
To be read in the voice of Morgan Freeman.
Hey.
Down in Mississippi, on Highway 61, in the heart of the old cotton belt, is a little place they call …
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July 11th – Road Trip, Day 2
So we left Trisha and Seamus’… … got back on the road (that’s my Mokeskine lower right, btw. Pretty much everything’s written down in that)…
… and followed the trail of Godfear …
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July 10th – Roadtrip begins.
(Rufus took this one.)
So we got into Cleveland two nights ago, a little after dark. The plane was a Continental Airlines puddlejumper. Haven’t been on an aircraft that small since the last time I …
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July 3rd – Coney Island
The plan was this: be on the corner of 36th and Madison at 10am to meet the guy from Dead Apple Tours. We were to be loaded into a 1954 hearse and driven about the locations of famous deaths …
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June 28 – Paris, London, Cowfold.
I’m back from Sussex, back in Camden, soon to be leaving for New York. Had a brilliant weekend with Ade, Lucy and the world’s most intelligent two-year-old. Jaw-dropping vocab, unfailingly polite even when cranky, full of opinions, inhabitant of a rich …
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June 20th: Last Night in Helsinki
I’m writing this on the plane to pass the time.
So yesterday I was really feeling the lack of sleep. And I was trying to work, and not doing very well at it. In fact I’ve still got to mark up …
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June 18th – Espoo
Bussed it out to Espoo, met up with one of my brother’s friends (well a mutual friend really as we kindasorta grew up in the same neighbourhood), ate meat, drank beer. Met a charming Irish-Finnish rogue of an opera singer who …
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June 13th – Welcome to Estonia, Land of the Emergency Pants
So much of what happened yesterday happened too rapidly to take notes, or take anything other than snapshots. So I’m attempting to recreate the …
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June 9th: Trip Assignment – Food
Okay, so one of the things R wanted me to do is this:
Seek out and eat a local culinary specialty of the town/region/area. Research its origins, why it’s particular to that region, and how it is prepared. take a …
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3rd June: Helsinki Update
Back in Siltanen, the place a block from J’s.
I’ve not been in a single place this entire trip that played music I couldn’t stand. In Leipzig the Hauptbahnhof played the Cure, Cranberries, Radiohead. Here plays the XX, Stone Roses and …
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