When I wrote on my list of goals that I wanted to juggle with fire clubs, Mark Bakalor contacted me about coming to juggle with internationally reknowned juggler Vova Galchenko in Los Angeles. When Mark saw that I was going to be in LA over Thanksgiving, he emailed and invited me to join his family […]
Continue readingLA just keeps offering one amazing day after the next. Thanksgiving Day was absolutely brilliant! One of my goals is to juggle with fire clubs. My dad taught me how to juggle three balls when I was young, and later he bought me a set of juggling clubs. I am not very good with them, […]
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Yesterday I had one of those amazing life-moments when you are just suddenly hit by where you are and what is happening. Since very early on in the “ALife4Sale” project, I have had occasional contacts from movie and TV producers interested in doing something with the story. I really did not know how to handle […]
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Another goal achieved, but… this one cannot be ticked off my list of one hundred goals, as it is someone else’s goal that I have been proud to be part of. I have been in LA for a few days now, and am sort of finding my way around. My best friend Maggie (Magellan) is […]
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Wow, three goals achieved in three days! I’ll be finished by Christmas if I can keep this up!! On Saturday I experienced indoor skydiving in a vertical wind tunnel, yesterday I completed my journey across Route 66 by finally arriving at Santa Monica, and today I headed into Hollywood to complete my goal of seeing […]
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I set off from Chicago on 27th October, almost a month ago, to travel across America on what is left of old Route 66. After dropping Evan off at LAX airport this morning (he is flying back home for Thanksgiving, which is this coming Thursday), I headed towards Santa Monica Beach, and the end of […]
Continue readingI am a fairly regular skydiver, and in the five years or so since my first jump, I have now done about 130 altogether. There are a couple of skydiving goals on my list, and one was to skydive in a vertical wind tunnel. In Australia there isn’t any such facility at all, the nearest […]
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I arrived at Evan’s house just north of LA yesterday afternoon. Evan is a PR guy who specialises in quirky internet stories, and he had contacted me very early on during “ALife4Sale” and given me a lot of help with some of the internet publicity for the auction. Evan is actually number 8 of ten […]
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It was a long drive from Las Vegas to LA in the RV, but I got an early start after saying goodbye to Simon and Myles, and by mid-afternoon I had passed through the last couple of towns mentioned in the song (Kingman was actually before detouring up to Las Vegas), and was heading towards […]
Continue readingI still had a lot of things that I wanted to see in Las Vegas, so on my last day there I was up early and headed out to Red Rock Canyon, which is just a few miles to the west of the city. From Simon and Myles’s house it only took minutes to get […]
Continue readingWell, another interesting day here in the land of make-believe! I have sort of become intrigued and slightly horrified by the US gun laws, but also have developed a sort of fatal attraction to the subtle lure of these amazing weapons! So when I came across an advert suggesting that a visit to a Vegas […]
Continue readingWow, what a culture shock! At lunchtime yesterday I was in the Badlands in South Dakota, utterly alone, hardly a sound except for the slight noise of the wind, and within a couple of hours I was wandering up and down The Strip in downtown Las Vegas! I arrived in Vegas on Thursday last week, […]
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On Friday I made my way to Las Vegas airport as the day warmed again to reach well into the 70s (degrees Farenheit) by mid-morning. After a bit of a delay the plane took off, and I had a great view of Lake Mead and the Hoover Dam as we flew over. A couple of […]
Continue readingBack in May 2008, during the build up to my “ALife4Sale” auction I did a blog article about an event organised in New York Grand Central Station by a group called Improv Everywhere. The event was called “The Big Freeze”, and you can see what was involved in the video below: I read more about […]
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Another beautiful sunny November day, I am being so lucky with the weather. I drove north from Kingman, where I had stayed overnight… guess where… that’s right, Walmart’s of course! My next destination is Las Vegas, and on the way, I got to travel across the Hoover Dam. It’s pretty spectacular, and well worth the […]
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The Grand Canyon is simply stunning. Without a doubt it meets and surpasses all expectations. It was a beautiful crisp clear morning as I drove up from Flagstaff, and by the time I arrived at Little Colorado River Canyon, just before the Grand Canyon itself, it was lovely and warm. I had been very lucky […]
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What a beautiful morning! After a long evening in the pub last night I headed back to the RV, warmed by the beer-jacket I was now wearing! It was still parked in the bank carpark where I left it late yesterday afternoon, and as a bank customer I decided I would be fine to stay […]
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Another long day at the wheel! I think I took things a bit easy on the early part of the Route 66 journey, and hung around in Oklahoma for a while, and now time is pressing a bit, as I have a flight booked from Las Vegas on Friday, so pressure is on a bit! […]
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I saw Gallup, New Mexico. Once again, like Amarillo, perhaps I am doing the place a bit of an injustice, as I had a lot of miles to cover, but a quick drive-through was enough… However, the drive through New Mexico on the almost desolate parts of old Route 66 was quite stunning, and very […]
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A long day of driving took me into New Mexico, and it was late Saturday evening by the time I arrived in Albuquerque, and made my way to my overnight accomodation – Walmarts carpark, of course! On Sunday morning I met with Sharon, who had contacted me through the website, and was keen to show […]
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I saw Amarillo! It didn’t take long to do so, a quick drive-through was enough! But I had been told that I should go about twenty miles south-east of Amarillo to see Palo Duro Canyon State Park, so after another night in another Walmart carpark, this time with at least ten other RVs, I was […]
Continue readingWell, well, how quickly plans can change! I had had lunch with Lorraine in Oklahoma and was about to head out of the city, and on the way back to the RV I passed a coffee shop with a big sign offering free WiFi access – a quick coffee before departure would be nice, and […]
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Well, I haven’t really seen enough of the Oklahoma area to confirm whether on not it is “oh so pretty”, but it is certainly a very friendly place, and I’ve had a great time here. I drove in from the farm in the countryside to the city on Tuesday afternoon, stopping off briefly to take […]
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After the hawk flying event on Saturday I finally got to meet Rose, who had sorted out mu RV accomodation in the beautiful Sequoyah State Park, along with her husband Lance. They took me on a bit of a tour around the area surrounding Wagoner, including going to see Route 66 iconic attraction The Blue […]
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I was a bit worried about finding the location for trying to achieve my next goal, as I hadn’t heard from Aaron, my hawk-flying contact. He had emailed me a few months ago and told me of a hawk-flying event he would be attending on 1st November in Wagoner, Oklahoma, just off Route 66. So […]
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