Second star to the right
Date: 19 June. Location: room 2213, Disneyland Hotel. Notable sightings: Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Pluto, Goofy, Sulley the monster, Chip, Dale and Captain Hook. I measured my time at Disneyland […]
Category Archives: travel
Los Angeles is 72 suburbs in search of a city
Date: 17 June. Location: the tiki bar, Disneyland Hotel, Disneyland. Notable sightings: Disneyland! People say you need a car in LA. To which I’ve always nodded politely, smiled vaguely and […]
Is everything glorious for you?
Date: 16 June. Location: so very LA right now, by the pool of über trendy The Standard. Notable sightings: the Hollywood sign, walk of fame, Sunset Boulevard, lots of Darth […]
Phase III: the clockwork family
Date: 16 June. Location: driving down the freeway in the hot, hot sun from Palm Desert to LA. Notable sightings: a roadrunner, the Empire Polo Club – home to the […]
The plastic waterslides in the desert
Date: 12 June. Location: driving home from Wet ‘n’ Wild Palm Springs in the desert’s warm dark, blasting uncool music at uncool volumes (to wit, Jason DeRulo; loud) as we […]
The magical vanity fair
Date: 11 June. Location: by the pool, Palm Desert. Notable sightings: the ritzy El Paseo shops (the Rodeo Drive of the desert), a rattlesnake, a real kitchen of our own! […]
You’re about to find out what happened in Vegas
Date: 8 June. Location: on the I-15, between Las Vegas and Palm Desert, Nevada. Notable sightings: buffet culture, a show on The Strip, the Bellagio fountains, Paris, New York New […]
Always get the french fries
Date: 6 June Location: somewhere over Kansas, US Airways flight from Atlanta, Georgia to Las Vegas, Nevada. Notable sightings: storms, so many storms, buffeting our little plane about. I’ve spent […]
Where the peaches grow
Date: 6 June Location: waiting for my southern breakfast with ‘grits’, Highland Bakery, Midtown, Atlanta, Georgia. Notable sightings: the famous Peachtree Street. I’d remarked to our Liberian cab driver in […]
We could not be more whitebread right now
Date: 4 June Location: on the Megabus bus from Nashville to Atlanta. Notable sightings: duelling pianos, Smashville (the home of the Nashville Predators and my new favourite word), the wrong […]
An unsettlingly big place 