Archive for November, 2007
Friday, November 30th, 2007
80:Louisiana:Living it up in the Big Easy
I guess the slight advantage of it being so cold while camping is that it certainly encourages me to get my ass out of bed. It was 6 degrees, so not too bad, and I was wearing plenty of clothes which certainly took the edge off it. I was starting to hum a bit since [...]
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
79:Mississippi:Looping down to New Orleans
After a night in a carpark in some nameless town I was desperate to check my bank balance after constantly forgetting the previous day and my funds were in dire need of a top up. I was now driving west again in the big S loop down to Louisiana and the Big Easy, New Orleans. [...]
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
78:Alabama:Back in Brum
Despite my thermal bottoms and socks I was woefully under dressed for the night and woke up at 5am absolutely freezing, well almost, the thermometer said 0 degrees. I had to get up and start the heater and since I was up I made a cup of tea and thought I may as well get [...]
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Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
77:Gulf of Mexico:Hunting for hillbillies
Still no complaints about the weather as I made my way through the farms and across the highways south back to the I-10 but there wasn’t really a lot to see. I was eating up the miles but I wasn’t really seeing the ‘south’ that I was expecting. No hill billies sitting on their porches, [...]
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Monday, November 26th, 2007
76:Florida:heading West
My seats went in the skip and I went on my way with the weather definitely back to the Florida standard, but not for long as after 100 miles driving to the west I turned back to the North West and back up into Georgia. It was 28 degrees again for quite a while but [...]
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Sunday, November 25th, 2007
75:Ocean Park:Getting eaten…
No big surprise that I slept through my alarm at 8am and woke up bleary eyed and confused around 10.30am. So much for my resolution to do another long day on Sunday… At least I was alive, on the way in the night before I passed a huge correctional facility, but it seems there were [...]
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Saturday, November 24th, 2007
74:Ocean Park:The plan wasn’t to get shot!!
Crazy Miriam and Patrick had left that morning at 4am to get back to Miami for a gig the next night so I met them at the junction of the Interstates for a final eggy-basket breakfast and to get my pillow back! Shall never the twain meet once more? Who knows, Im going south, she’s [...]
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Friday, November 23rd, 2007
73:I-26 South:Makin the PLAN!
I woke, took another hot shower since I didn’t know when my next one would be coming and went back into Main Street for coffee and a strategy meeting. Happily they were open this time so I grabbed a big cup and set to work on my map. I needed a bold route across the [...]
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Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
72:Hendersonville:No turkey for me!
For my first thanksgiving in America I didn’t find it particulary exciting I must say. Would help if I had some family nearby I guess. First I went back to the estate agents to surf, then I went shopping at good ol Wal-Mart, lamenting the poor bastards that had to work that day. Then I [...]
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
71:Hendersonville:T’was the night before Thanksgiving…
In the morning I drove back up the mountain and back down to Hendersonville where I was hoping to run into Miriam for Thanksgiving. She was up in North Carolina with her friend Patrick having come up the night before. I checked my messages when I got out of the park and back into normal [...]
