Saturday, 13 October 2007

....eloquent profanity, it rolls right off my tongue

I'm sat here with half an eye and both ears on BBC4's Emmy Lou Harris evening which has got me to thinking about the weird lyrics that hang around inside my head.

Feeling Single, Seeing Double kicked it off and reminded me of a drive a few years ago from Tehachapi to Tonapah and then onward to Winslow Arizona. It was a rented silver Ford Taurus wagon which did a sprint from San Francisco down through Yosemite, Sequoia and Kings Canyon over to the Grand Canyon, Monument Valley, Flagstaff and back through the Joshua Tree National Park (a homage to GP) to LA then back up the Pacific Coast highway. After a day at the Canyon, 10,000 maniacs had accompanied us out across the Painted Desert, and by the time we'd returned to NY, a good time had been had by all.

A great trip, funded by Pan Am miles and Marriott points - the airline sadly took the last 69,000 miles I had with them when they collapsed in a heap in the early '90s

I never did get a picture taken standing on that corner though....

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