The Roquefort Files

We had the best part of a day to kill in Phoenix before Ash’s flight home, and having stayed in a reasonably priced hotel in the posh suburb of Scottsdale, we decided on a low-pressure day of pottering around our immediate environs rather than chasing any particular tourist attractions. Admittedly, this decision was motivated as [...]

We headed south on the I15 out of Vegas, aiming for Williams, Arizona (yup, another Williams), where we planned to stay the night before heading up to the Grand Canyon. It was going to be a long day: we had at least four hours of driving ahead of us, not counting any time we might [...]

We left the Getty about lunchtime and drove through the endless sprawl of suburban Los Angeles, letting the cruise control keep us at the double nickel and trying to get the measure of our new car. The city eventually petered out into the desert, and we stopped at Barstow for a late lunch of burger-n-fries [...]

The day of the scheduled pin-removal operation rolled around, and I cycled down to the RIE in the darkness before the dawn. The receptionist in the Day Surgery Unit told me to take a seat and wait, and so I did. At about 11.30 one of the nurses took me through to a second waiting [...]

At Accident & Emergency I was wheelchaired into a cubicle and then helped gingerly onto a trolley. The next few hours were pretty hazy: I was dead tired, hungry and thirsty and my arm was only ever a degree away from a whole new world of stabbing pain. An A&E doctor and a succession of [...]

On the road to Kingston, we stopped in the town of Gananoque to have some lunch and to take a short boat trip around the Admiralty Islands just off shore in the Saint Lawrence. Gananoque is another eerily Amity Island-alike place, quiet in the off season and with the locals looking slightly askance at us [...]

Nous sommes arrivées, as the almost-locals say. We caught a relaxed flight from Glasgow to Hamilton in Tuesday, with some notable and pleasing departures from our usual travail arrangements: no leaving before dawn or sleeping in airports on this trip, with the added bonus of a rental car that didn’t offend by automotive sensibilities (a [...]

Here are the posts I made during our June 2005 US road trip, sorted in terms of the dates they describe rather than when they were posted. Glasgow, UK; Charlotte, NC; SC; Greenville, GA: June 9th – 11th Greenville, GA; Decatur, Mobile AL: June 11th – 12th Mobile, AL; Pass Christian, MS; New Orleans, LA: [...]

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