I would like to thank a few people, some of who I really would have found things a lot more difficult without them or made the journey lonely and with no purpose.
So, In no particular order either of precedence or time:
Manny and Greg of Burnaby Kawasaki in Burnaby, Vancouver for sorting out the chain and correcting the handling.… More...
The driving on Monday morning is remarkably sedate, I drop my bags off at JFK and the bike is instantly transformed into an agile greyhound, eager again to catch miscreants and speeding motorists as it has done for most of its life.… More...
After a night in a motel on the 1 and 9 highway north – my room had no windows but I did not care because I was so grateful to find a refuge from the lunatic driving, lack of road signs and enormous potholes that typifies the New York and New Jersey area.… More...
Did the show on WFMU after a hearty breakfast at the Flamingo cafe next door.
My waistline is expanding again <sigh>
Watched girls playing baseball in a park on the lower east side, very good game
Sat around and then discussed life with an ex punk called Harris, bought a book off his stall “How to be Cool”.… More...
‘King Of the Underground’ as Outsider Musician R Stevie Moore describes himself. Undoubtedly a pioneer in DIY pop with his groundbreaking cassette tape club which has been going since the end of the seventies. I struggled to find the RSTV castle – I was three hours late to see the legendary man and his partner Krys (Krystine).… More...
On the way to NY I stop at Whispering Pines in Rhode Island.
New York New, New Jersey, Newark, Rahway, Long Island.
Double A rating on wall street for Nassau County but still the MS13 gangs go on killing sprees. The $4 million mansions sit next to neighbourhoods where the unemployed and uninsured roam, a single policeman is posted to patrol the divide on a 24 hpour basis.… More...
Buzzing through from Mass. and on into Providence Rhode Island. Rhode Island has a long name but it is the smallest state. I had brunch just outside the state line and my neighbour suggested I make my way to Newport. The strange thing is that I have not seen a single foreign tourist, possibly because all the hire cars have US license plates so it is harder to distinguish them.… More...
I have just got round to reading the review on the Kennedy family ‘The Importance of Being Kennedy’ in the Guardian by my daughter: see here
It makes me want to read it! Well done, S.
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A very nice run through Vermont on highway 7 heading south, along the corner of New Hampshire and into Massachusetts. All went really well until I ran into Worcester.
Nearly all day I floated past almost perfect shaker style houses of Vermont, manicured villages of Mass.… More...
