Things I knew about Chicago before today:
• It has the nickname ‘The Windy City‘
• The subway system (below) is known as the ‘L‘
• The Cubs play baseball as Wrigley stadium here
• It gets really cold in the winter
• It’s the name of a Broadway musical that I saw on stage, but never on film
• My [...]

So it’s 365 days since I could last say “It’s my birthday”.
Birthdays are often the time to take stock of ones lot. And I like to look back on my birthday on the pluses and minuses of the last twelve months - and compile a little life balance sheet just to see whether I’m still [...]

Let’s see how many I can spot in a 12 hour period.
(All times local)
4.54pm - At airport. I don’t see any. Most disappointing. Total = 0
6.14pm - Taxi to hotel. Pass two! Must go back to take photos. Total = 2
7.23pm - Am at the Space Needle. The coffee bar at the top is the [...]

In the field video is a lot harder to edit than the luxury of having a proper ’studio’ suite to put something together.
So with apologies for the rough feel of the cut, here’s a little four minute adventure of my trip onto the Mendenhall Glacier today. Flirting with the tour guide is not obligatory, [...]

I’ve just been for a walk on this glacier.

Photo taken from a helicopter, shortly before we landed on it. Video to follow.

It is raining. It is wonderful.
Some of my nicest weather days in Charleston has been where it’s rained a little - not a massive thunderstorm, but a pleasant warm rain that cools the air down, removes the humidity and allows you to breath again without this feeling that a sackful of pollen was clogging [...]

Greetings from Juneau, Alaska.
Monday - Resign from job, by giving two weeks notice. Tuesday - Walk out of job after being told I can leave immediately. Wednesday - Have a hard day sunning myself for too many hours at the beach. Thursday - Travel for 19 hours via Philadelphia and Seattle to get to [...]