So I’ve got a friend who’s a Captain in the New Orleans Police Department – what, hasn’t everyone? I was always going to catch up with with my Tami on my travels when I got to New Orleans. After many years working her way up through the ranks, being undercover, working in the narcotics department [...]

I sort of can’t believe I haven’t got around to doing this sooner, so it’s about time. If you’ve been clicking through to the daily updated Google Map on the right hand side over there you’ll have been able to see the route I’ve taken each day, the same-name places I’ve stopped at and exactly [...]

The creeping realisation set in somewhere in Alabama – not long after we’d crossed the state line. Right up until a day before I set out four weeks ago, people were saying to me “Well … are you excited about your trip?”, and I was kinda like “Mmmm… spose…”, but knew that really I was [...]

Goodness that’s bad, I’ve got to think of some better blog-post titles otherwise any sympathy I may be currently be getting will be eradicated faster than it takes someone to smash a car window if I keep turning out puns like that. I’m in Raleigh now, in North Carolina. I almost quit and went straight [...]

This is a stupid idea. But it’s going to be an incredibly fun one. Eventually. After 7 hours of driving today, I was shouting out the naughtiest of swearwords at 10pm this evening to anyone that got in my way as I drove around the tiny town of Brattleboro, Vermont getting more and more frustrated [...]

Trains: Whilst I’ve said already that the real point of my road trip isn’t really anything to do with the tube at all – having same named places is just an excuse, an angle to actually get out there and do it – when an opportunity like this comes up, you can’t really but wonder [...]

I can tell I’m in New England, because the drivers have gone bloody crazy. After three years of bitching about how slow and nice and steady the South is when it comes to its drivers and driving in general, it’s a little bit of a shock to the system to have a sharp reminder of [...]

All this driving, and I haven’t even really started yet. Day #1 will officially be on Tuesday of next week – when I’ll be in Epping, Maine. So until then it’s just a case of getting there so that I can start properly. It’s giving me a good period of time for me to see [...]

Why the hell did I think that driving round the whole of the USA would be a good idea?! Breathe Geoff … breathe .. slowly .. count to ten, and just get on with it. It’ll all be fine, no – really. Right? What started out as a brief email last year from my friend [...]

It’s time to get a little poignant people. As it shouldn’t have been too hard for you to work out by now … the initial thinking behind this trip was for it to be my way of saying ‘farewell’ to the USA (by seeing it all) and then buggering off home. But I’m going to [...]

I shouldn’t actually be writing this. The plan (for there is always a plan) was for me to post a few ‘build up’ videos prior to leaving, make a minimum fuss about heading off, and then .. just head off. This blog is meant to be video-centric, and a web-video-view into my world, and written-only [...]

Hello. It’s April 2nd, 2009. In one months time on May 2nd, I’ll have been in the USA for exactly three years. A lot of stuff – good and bad – has happened in that time, and it’s now culminated to the point where I feel I need to move on and do something rather [...]