Hello! It’s been a while since my last update, hasn’t it. Here’s a brief account of the goings on:
The roadtrip down the route of the Great River Road (mentioned here) in the United States was incredible. I also ended up writing a good bit of poetry during it and having adventures that included:
- sneaking into an abandoned themepark to take photographs
- swimming in the sea with some fish in Key West
- getting drunk in New Orleans
- spending two full days in Disney World
- staying in some pretty creepy motels
- checking out the art deco architecture in Maimi beach
- going up the Empire State Building at night
- attending a wedding in Iowa
- listening to some blues bands in Ground Zero, Clarksdale, Mississippi
- checking out the famous Sun Studio where Elvis recorded his first record
- walking around the Lorraine Motel where Martin Luther King Jr was murdered
- meeting and taking photographic portraits of Jacqueline Smith, the last tenant of the Lorraine Motel who has been protesting outside of it (as it’s now the Civil Rights Museum) for the last 26 years. She showed me a photo of her and Bono. I hate Bono
- staying in Ferguson while the recent race riots were going on – that was completely by accident though
- The car was towed once, nearly eaten by mosquitos in the everglades, and washed clean by a torrential rain downpour that overturned TRUCKS in Alabama
- I also kissed the ground in front of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald’s apartment, which is now the only museum in the world anywhere dedicated to either of them. Madness!
- taking 10 rolls of film photographs, a load of digital photographs and some android photographs
- posing with my boyfriend for a photo in front of the American Gothic house (see below)
- having my baggage lost on the way to America by American Airlines and it’s still not been returned
- meeting two amazing people that I know from the internet – Joe Birdwell and Carlo Ostrout
- eating roughly my own weight in barbequed ribs
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