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Dear friend Thank you yet again for your kindness and hospitality during my coast-to-coast journey. You have cheered me along as I’ve plodded on, some of you have supported me financially, some of you have opened your homes to me, all of you have added to my experience in some way and I’ve never failed…
Solve it while I sleep #4
Getting to Lafayette I've planned a few days rest near Lafayette LA before moving onto New Orleans – it's a kind of mid-point decompression after SXSW. I'd really like to be there as long as I can – Thursday thru Sunday. I misread the Amtrak timetable and thought I could leave Austin on Wednesday night…
Opening up for collaborations
I’m writing lots of notes, but I’m not doing much with them because they’re not well-formed enough to be blog posts or brief enough to be status updates. I’m not happy with how much I’m “producing”. I don’t desperately need to fix that by producing more but I do feel the need to get a…
My passport expires tomorrow
Yikes! When I got this, 25th October 2010 seemed a very very long time away. It was still a massive novelty to be saying 2000-and-something and being in the noughties, let alone considering the second decade of the 21st Century. I can’t remember why I renewed it when I did. But I’m guessing that it…
1st UK journals set free
On Friday, I gave out three moleskine notebooks, labelled with their intended destination and including a set of instructions from the original post over here. Each journal also comes in a stamped addressed jiffy bag so that they can come back to me at the end of the month. They went to two people who…
Service and Presence
This badge is an aide-mémoire – it reminds me both that I am here (right now) and what I'm here to do. In the excitement of preparing for the trip and talking about it, answering questions and asking for help to just get over to San Francisco tomorrow, something has become a little obscured. I believe…