The American cocktail has history. From the time when people mixed their booze with hard spirits so that they didn’t get sick to the moment when alcohol was banned completely but really only went underground, there has always seemed something compelling about the relationship of flavours that the great cocktail makers are privy to. Good cocktail… [Read more…]
December 4, 2010
Firmly back in the land of reality now, after nearly two months off the road and back into the normality of our old routine. It’s easy to let the memories of our amazing trip fade back into he recesses of our minds but the truth is that 8000 miles through the heart of the… [Read more…]
October 1, 2010
Pretty unbiased opinion, then. On the way back from the boondocks, and on the road into le Grand Pomme there is a hotdog stand called ‘Walter’s‘. And it sells tasty little snack-sized wieners that you can buy by the trio to give you a quick fast food fix.We added fries and a malt shake and… [Read more…]
September 27, 2010
More campfire cooking goodness for y’all: we stayed at a somewhat spooky, if family-friendly campsite while in Virginia and cooked us some stewy porky food that will stay with me for the rest of this trip and beyond. Certainly my memories of the place we ate it in will…
September 23, 2010
America loves an augmented attraction. It’s not enough to have a 215 feet high limestone archway surrounded by beautiful waterfalls and pine-scented woods. No, what’s needed here is a massive gift shop, a Toy Museum, a Haunted Museum, a reconstructed Native American village and a cowboy riding a dinosaur. Yep, that should do. Oh wait.… [Read more…]
September 19, 2010
As we’ve travelled on this long (so far by my reckoning getting close to 8000 miles) road, some of the best food we’ve experienced has been on our campfire. I realise that might sound slightly big-headed, and it’s not meant to be: it’s just that after clocking your 410th Waffle House or Arby’s and realising… [Read more…]
September 19, 2010
We had some ever-so-tipsy-fun the other night while we were camping in Huntingdon Beach State Park. Once we’d eaten a tasty grouper dinner, we headed down to the beach for some long exposure photography shenanigans. With E as the (willing, it has to be said) model we made some images using the existing moon-and-star-light and… [Read more…]
September 9, 2010
Americana: when you hear this word you’d be forgiven for thinking of rootsy, earthy and possibly ever-so-slightly chintzy American ‘stuff’. I’d never heard it used solely in the context of music as a genre but that might be because I’m a Limey, and wouldn’t have had reason to. Anyways, we were introduced to this style… [Read more…]
September 5, 2010
No? Well tough cheddar, fella, because you’re going to have it anyways, y’hear?
September 4, 2010
The sound of Mississippi is loose and slow. It stomps and hollers, and it hides in tumbledown little shacks. And when you hear it, you put two big pieces of the story of music together: without this, there would be no rock ‘n roll, no r’n'b.
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February 12, 2011
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