currently reading: on the road

Shamefully, I have never read this before.

Needless to say, it’s a fascinating insight into a strange American era.  The book is filled with tension between the sudden possibilities of life in the postwar United States – the trajectory hinted…

Arizona/Nevada Border

We were stuck in traffic going through the Hoover Dam for nearly two hours – the Nevada police were operating some sort of mysterious checkpoint on the way into the state which slowed traffic to…

american food i have known & (mostly) loved, part 1

As a foreigner, one could be forgiven for having very low expectations of American food.  Mysteriously, what has been selected for export as representative of the USA tends to be fairly vile combinations of grease, beef, sugary bread and fake…

afternoon storms, new orleans

Things I like about the USA:
- the food
- everything is a robot
- it feels like the centre of the world
- the…