THE JOURNALISMS.


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I have returned from the US, and I’ve more or less recovered from the jet lag and the 15-hour flight.

It was mostly the same deal as last year: a road trip from Chicago to Maryville-Alcoa and back, by way of Carbondale, Nashville and Cincinnati (rather than Indianapolis). Overall it went smoothly, apart from the occasional debilitating illness. ( Read more... )

I’ll be in the US driving from Chicago to Knoxville and back for the next two weeks if anyone needs me.


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I was in Shanghai last week. I hadn’t been there since 2006, and I hadn’t been to mainland China at all since 2010, so it took some readjustment on my part.

I didn’t see much of Shanghai this time, though I did have a decent view of Century Park.


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re: our US tour in October (which I was supposed to be doing a series about, but was too busy with other things to get around to until now):

The visit to the Colonel Sanders Museum in Corbin, KY was unplanned.

Our subsequent visit to the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library in Indianapolis was not.

I should qualify that. We had already planned to return ( Read more... )

One interesting thing about this trip is that we had a pretty god idea of what to do and who to meet on the way to Maryville-Alcoa, but no idea what to do on the way back to Chicago.

We didn't follow the same path back - we opted to go north and stop at Indianapolis for a night. And since we didn't know anyone along that route, we had no real plans ( Read more... )

re: our US tour in October (which I was supposed to be doing a series about, but was too busy with other things to get around to until now):

Our ultimate destination - by way of Chicago, Carbondale, IL and Nashville - was Maryville-Alcoa, Tennessee to visit my family for a week.

As you might imagine, there’s not a lot to do in Maryville-Alcoa and ( Read more... )

re: our US tour in October (which I was supposed to be doing a series about, but was too busy with other things to get around to until now):

The tour began in Chicago, which was notable for a few things:

1. Devil Dawgs, which is perfect when yr jetlagged and in need of hot dogs at 1am.


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As mentioned in the last post, I didn’t watch very much TV while I was in the states. But when I did, I got an earful about politics. It being an election year and all.

Naturally that includes political ads, of which I saw quite a few. Some of them involve Congressional races, and I found it interesting that most of the Republican ads seemed to ( Read more... )

I haven’t actually started on this series yet, but this is low hanging fruit, so I might as well get it out of the way.

I didn’t watch very much TV while I was in the states. But when I did, I got an earful about the Ebola. Even the front page of the Maryville newspaper had Ebola all over it.


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