Archive for May, 2001

mexico?

Thursday, May 31st, 2001

Lost my notebook so not sure which were on which days. Here’s where we went
Gila cliff dwellings
Grand Canyon (full day)
Big Bend National Park, TX - 2 days ‘cos Texas is big!
Gila Cliff Dwellings - some 700 year old houses built on the side of a cliff by native americans - very interesting as they’re still […]

vegas

Sunday, May 27th, 2001

Well, I made some money in Las Vegas, then I lost it all again. Played one dollar, got up to $3.25, then lost it all. Should have quit while ahead!
Such a fake town - hotel casinos modelled after New York, Paris and Venice, singing plants on the street corners, everything designed to get you into […]

locs

Saturday, May 26th, 2001

(1)35.75478N 118.42199W
(2)Red Rock Canyon - 35.37225N 117.99100W

out of sf

Friday, May 25th, 2001

First night on the magic bus!

insomniac

Thursday, May 24th, 2001

Last night in San Francisco - went to the Cable Car museum today. There’s a TV crew in the hostel tonight - filming for “Insomniac” on Comedy Central.

disassembley

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2001

Spent about an hour today doing manual labour…took my bicycle apart and put it in a box, and shipped it to New York. From there I can collect it, and bring it on a plane as checked baggage, to bring it back to Europe. But now I’m without wheels, ah well. On the other hand, […]

Fog

Sunday, May 20th, 2001

Discovered an interesting thing about San Francisco today…if you don’t like the sunshine, go a mile or two west to the beach, and there’ll be fog and clouds there, keeping you out of the evil bright stuff.
I’m really appreciating having my bicycle in this city, it is the best way to get around, I travel […]

Frank Black

Saturday, May 19th, 2001

Ha! Frank Black and his band, the Catholics are playing tonight…guess where I’ll be!
Picked up my bicycle from the shop, I’d left it in for a tune-up.
[much later]Great show - rather than having a band for an opening act, as usual, they had a guy doing school science experiments! He made a pickle glow orange, […]

San Francisco

Friday, May 18th, 2001

Brought the bicycle in to a repair shop for a tune-up, after such a distance it’s a necessity

Golden Gate Bridge

Thursday, May 17th, 2001

Cycled all day. In the early afternoon, I turned off the coast road, and headed inland. Nothing but hot weather and empty fields for ages, then suddenly I found myself in Fairfax, CA. From here on in it’s all urban riding on cycle paths, until finally, at about 5:15pm today I rode over the Golden […]