Not quite sizzling yet. I haven’t been out so I’m air-conditioned, but my computer tells me it’s only 72F just before 10am 🙂 So, weather chit-chat aside, where next? Strike that! *Who* next – this is a journey across a network of people and while the places I’ve been have all been hugely interesting in…
So just thinking about moving on from New Orleans, I thought I’d get my Amtrak timetable out. I looked all through my bags and I couldn’t find it. i simulaneously found that I could locate my rail pass. Uh-oh! That’s (part of) my ticket home. I’m not at all sure about getting to NYC without…
I didn't get any immediate and obvious answer to what to do about the next stage of the trip. Â I made some efforts to continue trying to get a lift. Â NOLA friends made some suggestions and I followed them all up, but no-one was keen on taking an unknown English guy on a 10-hour road…
So I need to get from Lafayette to New Orleans tomorrow (Sunday).  I thought I had a ride, but it looks like it's fallen through. I'm sure there's a bus but it looks like it takes forever. This trip's a great exercise in expecting the unexpected and accepting whatever comes along.  That means not labelling things…
http://www.tripline.net/api/tripviewer.swf Someone (thankyou whoever you were!!!) told me about tripline and it’s amazing – this is just a first go using my foursquare check-ins to build a map of the journey so far and embedding it here, but you can add notes and pictures too. It won’t update automatically yet unfortunately but Byron at tripline…
http://boos.audioboo.fm/swf/fullsize_player.swf via Audioboo Originally posted on Lloyd’s posterous
Monday I knew that going badgeless was absolutely the right idea. Â I'm not feeling the constant worry of being in the wrong place or the wrong panel or being frustrated thinking about panels, going along expecting something interesting and finding the same old drivel. I hung out with some friends and then had lunch…
Sunday didn't feel like a Sunday at all. Daytime was a lot of trying to get to meet people and being frustrated. I spent the afternoon at a #technomad meetup – lots of very interesting people using social technology to travel in different ways and generally be homeless without being *homeless*. In the evening, I…
Saturday was the first day I took my ukulele downtown. Â I spent a lot of time with Phil – we had lunch with the Bambuser gang, streamed me playing outside the convention centre and went and played again over in the park where another guy was learning the lessons of trying to strum a steel-stringed…
One of the big lessons I learned this year from fundraising is not to rely on *anything* at all until it's in my account. Â I had a few potential corporate sponsorship deals in the pipeline and I guessed that at least one of them would come through either before or during the trip. Â None of…