The Roquefort Files

We spent an evening in Mobile, driving into town from our motel (a Hampton Inn – roughly equivalent to 1.5 x Super 8, my newly minted unit of motel quality. At least the internet worked, although I did have to share the fortunately massive bed with Josh) along the shady Dauphin Street. It’s really starting [...]

I’m writing this on Josh’s laptop as we roll along I85, just inside Alabama and heading towards Montgomery, where we’ll grab something to eat before rejoining the interstate and charging onwards into the tropical storm. This far north of it, it’s manifesting itself mainly as a noticeable but not oppressive humidity and a persistent, fine [...]

I’ve decided to chronicle the journey over in terms of the caffeine it took to get me here. Also planes, trains and automobiles were necessarily involved, but they were secondary to staying awake for 26 hours or whatever. cup of tea with breakfast. Still a bit groggy from dragging myself out of bed at 6.15. [...]

Two things: Christ, is my nose really that big? I’ve just signed up for Flickr so I can post ‘interesting’ photos from the forthcoming road trip, hence the random self-congratulatory pic from TM’s Subway gig. Have you been to tiny-monkey.net yet? Well why not? Off you go and have a browse through a Pulitzer-calibre selection [...]

are like zombies. You wait ages for one to appear and as soon as you dispatch it, another pops up to take its place. So it was that I went to Louise, Ally and Antonio’s flat on Wednesday for the second C&W party in a week. Louise is off to NZ for the summer to [...]

things are steadily coming together for next week’s American lunacy. Our car (a Pontiac Grand Prix, if you’re interested in that sort of thing) is hired; the FM transmitter for my iPod has arrived and my credit card is glowing a dull red. [As an aside, the iTrip is actually illegal to use in the [...]