When I was at university I had a boyfriend called Tom. He was a glaciologist, working on his Ph.D and spending as much time as he could in Iceland. Some of my friends never understood what I saw in him. Physically, he was not my type at all: skinny and slightly foppish, with an oddly dapper [...]
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I finished my roadtrip with a journey into the interior of Washington State. Around 40 minutes’ drive from Seattle lie the towns of Fall City, Snoqualmie and North Bend, all used during the filming of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks TV series. To say I’m a fan of Twin Peaks is something of an understatement. An ex-boyfriend introduced [...] In Seattle now, theoretically at the end of our journey, in mileage terms at least. We have covered the whole of the west coast, pretty much (should really have started in San Diego). 1040 miles as the crow flies, many many more the way we traveled it: some inland routes, some along the coast. We did [...] The trip has become a trip. Initial wonderment has been replaced by a strange mixture of emotions. There are long periods of driving, through sometimes extremely beautiful and sometimes quite monotonous terrain. There is so much of everything in California – millions of redwood trees, endless miles of sun-bleached grass, vineyard upon vineyard, closer to the [...] |
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