When Imagination Meets Reality

As regular readers of this blog (and especially my twitter feed) will know, I have just returned from a quick jaunt down south to New Orleans.  It was a great trip.  New Orleans is one of the few places that managed to live up to my preconceived notions of the place.  I had a blast, ate far too much (the …

Road Trip!

This afternoon I shall be climbing into a car with my good friend Chris Stevens and we’ll be setting off south.  Destination: New Orleans.  We’ll be in a Mini Cooper, which doesn’t seem very Jack Kerouac to me, but never mind.  It’ll probably be more comfortable than a battered old van, I suppose, and we are old men now.  I …