Monthly Archives: August 2012

Reblogged from A Chevy for Six, Please: Inspired by seeing the sunrise yesterday, I have adopted similar tactics for staying in Las Vegas these next few days. Out running the Strip as the sun appeared above the horizon was a … Continue reading →

Reblogged from A Chevy for Six, Please: Sunrise at the Grand Canyon Over the years on our travels we’ve (not) seen many iconic spots in less than perfect conditions. Scrabbling slippery steps on The Great Wall of China in a … Continue reading →

Reblogged from A Chevy for Six, Please: La Jolla beach After a final pineapple juice-soaked carb-high session of late night poker, we left Surf City on a high note and headed still farther south to San Diego via La Jolla. … Continue reading →

Reblogged from A Chevy for Six, Please: The Caffe del Arte, Beverly Hills There are a couple of tried-and-tested ways to get under the skin of a place when you have relatively limited time available. Our favoured approach is to … Continue reading →

Reblogged from A Chevy for Six, Please: I knew there was a very good reason to not read guidebooks. I knew it. Because they tell you as much about what you don’t want to know as what you do. We … Continue reading →

Reblogged from A Chevy for Six, Please: The only pedestrians down and out in BH mid-morning were of the Kempner variety Couldn’t see the seven dwarves anywhere The only jogger in town at that hour I’m very non-discriminatory in my … Continue reading →

Reblogged from A Chevy for Six, Please: Look at her gleam^^ I, Isabel, write from the solitude of an empty hotel room. Well, Rachel’s here but she’s deeply asleep and so would be no use in a fire. So for … Continue reading →

Reblogged from A Chevy for Six, Please: Cambria Main Street This morning saw a successful and timely win against Satnav, who in a spirit of provocative meanness tried to force us down Highway 101 again for our journey south. It … Continue reading →

Reblogged from A Chevy for Six, Please: The Thomas Kinkade Experience If Carmel (CA) didn’t exist you couldn’t invent it. The hyperreality of a Disneyland experience is hard-pushed to match a walk down Carmel’s main thoroughfare. Gingerbread cottages and cutesy … Continue reading →

Reblogged from A Chevy for Six, Please: Always one for seeking a radically different view on any situation, place or encounter, I began this trip with a determinedly psychogeographical approach. Put bluntly, i was still in work mode, because hey, … Continue reading →