Seventh stop: Colorado Springs, Colorado Dodgy rating: 0/10 Crazy Count: A few mad cows (hep, hep) Stay: 21st November - 16th December "Oh how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate, or in the wordlessness of long, grueling labor, of sound sleep, of true music, or of human understanding rendered speechless by emotion" Dr Zhivago It’s my penultimate day at the ranch and as I drive to work for the final time in the beaten old F50 Dodge Ram I have been giv [View Full Entry]

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I would recommend to anyone traveling across the states, if time allows, to use Greyhound. So far, I have traveled by coach, plane, train and automobile and Greyhound has been by far, the most enjoyable. First and foremost, because of the demographic it attracts. Over those 36 hours I spent time with Mexican families, ex-cons just out of prison, crazy people (standard), Chicago gangsters, old men heading home to families, young men heading away from home for the first time. And it's not like the UK where people sit as far away from you as possible and avoid eye contact, everyone [View Full Entry]

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Fifth stop: San Francisco baby Dodgy rating: some and some Crazy Count: some and some Fun Rating: Off the scale - ridiculous, I want to live here fun Stay: 29th October - 6th November Sooooooo much happened in a short space of time so I will leave you with a quote, some highlights and of course, pictures. "When I was growing up, my family kept chickens. We always had about a dozen of them at any given time and whenever one died off - taken away by a hawk or fox or by some obscure chicken illness - my father would [View Full Entry]

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I am clearly rubbish as this travel blog lark. I have been having way too much fun and for the most part am never even near a computer which really doesn't help much. I am currently refusing to use internet cafes here as they cost five million squiddles an hour but I said I'd do it (Neil, I think this may be your fault) so I will but be warned, it will be when I grab a moment here or there and will mostly be a bish, bash, bosh rush job. Miss you all millions. Make sure you get your arses [View Full Entry]

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Second stop: San Diego Dodgy rating: 4/10 Crazy Count: 10 + Fun Rating: 8/10 - Raving Fun We begin the day in style, breakfasting (does water count?) with Caths media mates at the prestigious LA Roosavelt, the place to be seen apparently if you're an LA darling. Word on the street has it Sir Richard Branson is gracing the premises also so as we waltz round the plush corridors and out to the pool area, quite out of place in our traveler’s rags, we glance round hoping to catch a glimpse of the big man. Surprisingly, Sir B chooses not to [View Full Entry]

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First stop: LA Dodgy rating: 7/10 Crazy count: Over 20 with 4 noteworthy candidates Fun rating: 7/10 - Big box fun. After 11 hours, 4 films, and 3 bottles of wine, we finally touched down on the other side of the pond. Phew. During a somewhat violent bout of turbulence, both Cath and I had pretty much convinced ourselves we were going to crash and die (possibly a side effect of too much wine) so the fact we had managed to land safe and sound was a mammoth relief. Arrive alive. Check. We raced through customs with minimum fuss. No requests [View Full Entry]

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