Scenes from the LA lifestyle
Apropos to the location, I offer a few vignettes of recent days, in the theme of screenplay. EXT. STREET – SUNSET BOULEVARD, NEAR THE STRIP – DUSK ANDREW, late-20s stocky Aussie, and 30-something SIMON wander down the Strip, on their [...]
More Scenes from LA
EXT. BUS STOP – SUNSET BOULEVARD – NIGHT ANDREW and SIMON sit at a well-lit, modern bus stop, waiting. Next to them sits a YOUNG BLACK MAN with a white pullover and hood. He has a long scraggly beard, holds [...]
Blogging from Microsoft
So I’m in the Seattle-area over the Thanksgiving holiday… when the big snowy thing hits, and we’re stuck 30 miles from my relatives’ home right at the start of rush-hour. The highway is going about a mile an hour, and [...]
Of travel journals
Back when I first started my globetrotting adventures, I kept a cliched travel journal. Actually, journals. A different one for each trip. My preference was for slim volumes with blank pages (never lined!) which would allow for drawing, when so [...]
Jetlag-a-rama
For years, I’d prided myself on my traveling skills, particularly when it came to a certain lack of jet-laggage. This time round, as if I need any further indication of my impending agedness, I’m…well, lagged. I’ve been waking up at [...]